Completion of Master of Music Degree at Eastman School
Poet involved
What happened
Robert Nathaniel Dett completed a Master of Music degree at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. His master's thesis became the oratorio 'The Ordering of Moses,' based on African American spiritual material.
Literary impact
This advanced degree gave formal academic grounding to the large-scale oratorio form Dett had been developing, culminating in what would become his most ambitious work. It marked the final major stage of his lifelong pursuit of formal musical education.
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