"I Offer a Dance of Joy...": The Intersection of Genealogy and Genre in Edward Knight's Tales Not Told

The purpose of this document is to examine Knight's cycle from the twin perspectives of genealogy (with detailed examinations of the biographies of each of Knight's ancestors featured in Alexander's poetry) and genre (emphasizing the composer's choices of generic topoi for each of the six songs in the cycle). Such a study will be an asset to future performances of this work by assembling and codifying research into the cycle's origins with the full cooperation of the creators of the work.