University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Student Research, Creative Activity, and Performance - School of Music Music, School of 4-28-2008 Fields of Wonder: Exploring the Langston Hughes Song Cycles of Robert Owens Jamie Reimer University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/musicstudent Part of the Music Commons Reimer, Jamie, "Fields of Wonder: Exploring the Langston Hughes Song Cycles of Robert Owens" (2008). Student Research, Creative Activity, and Performance - School of Music. 13. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/musicstudent/13 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Music, School of at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Student Research, Creative Activity, and Performance - School of Music by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. FIELDS OF WONDER : EXPLORING THE LANGSTON HUGHES SONG CYCLES OF ROBERT OWENS (AN INTRODUCTORY ANALYSIS AND PERFORMANCE GUIDE) TEARLESS, OP. 9 SILVER RAIN, OP.11 DESIRE, OP. 13 HEART ON THE WALL, OP. 14 BORDER LINE, OP.24 MORTAL STORM, OP.29 By Jamie Michelle Reimer A DISSERTATION Presented to the Faculty of The Graduate College of the University of Nebraska In Partial Fulfillment of Requirements For the Degree of Doctor of Musical Arts Major: Music Under the Supervision of Professor Donna Harler-Smith Lincoln, Nebraska May, 2008 2 FIELDS OF WONDER : EXPLORING THE LANGSTON HUGHES SONG CYCLES OF ROBERT OWENS (AN INTRODUCTORY ANALYSIS AND PERFORMANCE GUIDE) Jamie Michelle Reimer, D.M.A. University of Nebraska, 2008 Advisor: Donna Harler-Smith Composer Robert Owens (b.