Essays On The Song Cycle And On Defining The Field

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004488748

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Essays on the Song Cycle and on Defining the Field by Anonim Pdf

This volume assembles twelve interdisciplinary essays that were originally presented at the Second International Conference on Word and Music Studies at Ann Arbor, MI, in 1999, a conference organized by the International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA). The contributions to this volume focus on two centres of interest. The first deals with general issues of literature and music relations from culturalist, historical, reception-aesthetic and cognitive points of view. It covers issues such as conceptual problems in devising transdisciplinary histories of both arts, cultural functions of opera as a means of reflecting postcolonial national identity, the problem of verbalizing musical experience in nineteenth-century aesthetics and of understanding reception processes triggered by musicalized fiction. The second centre of interest deals with a specific genre of vocal music as an obvious area of word and music interaction, namely the song cycle. As a musico-literary genre, the song cycle not only permits explorations of relations between text and music in individual songs but also raises the question if, and to what extent words and/or music contribute to creating a larger unity beyond the limits of single songs. Elucidating both of these issues with stimulating diversity the essays in this section highlight classic nineteenth- and twentieth-century song cycles by Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Hugo Wolf, Richard Strauss and Benjamin Britten and also include the discussion of a modern successor of the song cycle, the concept album as part of today’s popular culture.

Author : Werner Wolf
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 691 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004346642

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Selected Essays on Intermediality by Werner Wolf (1992–2014) by Werner Wolf Pdf

This volume collects twenty-two major essays by Werner Wolf published between 1992 and 2014, which have contributed to establishing ‘intermediality’ as an internationally recognized research field, providing a widely accepted typology of the field and opening intermedial perspectives on areas as varied as narratology, metareferentiality and iconicity.

Author : Andrew Gibson,Steven Morrison
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9042015470

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Joyce's "Wandering Rocks" by Andrew Gibson,Steven Morrison Pdf

Author : Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra,Roy Porter
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9042009314

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Cultures of Neurasthenia from Beard to the First World War by Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra,Roy Porter Pdf

Neurasthenia, or "nerve weakness," was originally identified in the U.S. in the late-19th century as an urban disease, similar to today's chronic fatigue syndrome. Neurasthenia maintained popularity through the first decade of the 20th century. This text contains 16 papers from a conference held in June 2000 in Amsterdam, to analyze and compare the history of neurasthenia in Britain, Germany, and the Netherlands. Developments in America and France are also given attention, as well as nervous disorders in Britain prior to the coming of neurasthenia. The authors consider the rise and fall of neurasthenia, variations in its popularity among countries, and the professional, patient, and public views of the disorder. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Author : Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra,G. M. van Heteren,E. M. Tansey
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 904201587X

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Biographies of Remedies by Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra,G. M. van Heteren,E. M. Tansey Pdf

The long twentieth century has witnessed a tremendous upsurge in new drugs, remedies and therapeutic strategies. The cultural environments in which they emerged, the social circumstances from which they sprang, and the social effects that remedies engendered are treated in depth in this collection of essays.

Author : Freeman G. Henry
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : French literature
ISBN : 9042013192

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Beginnings in French Literature by Freeman G. Henry Pdf

From the contents: R. Howard BLOCH: Eneas before the walls of Carthage: the beginnings of the city and romance in the suburbs. - Richard l. REGOSIN: Language and nation in 16th-Century France: the Arts poetiques. - Zahi ZALLOUA: Reading the Essais: Where does the critic begin? - Louise K. HOROWITZ: Honore d'Urfe: Bellwether beginnings. - Leonard HINDS: Paratext and framing narrative: techniques of skepticism in Le parasite mormon."

Author : Walter Bernhart,Steven Paul Scher,Werner Wolf
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 9042005777

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Defining the Field by Walter Bernhart,Steven Paul Scher,Werner Wolf Pdf

The nineteen interdisciplinary essays assembled in WORD AND MUSIC STUDIES I were first presented in 1997 at the founding conference of the International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA) in Graz, Austria. Diverse in subject matter, theoretical orientation, critical approach, and interpretive strategy, they share a keen scholarly interest in contemporary word-music reflection. Registering the impact of cultural studies on word-music relations, as manifested in the 'new musicology' and other 'historicist' approaches, the volume aims to assess the entire field of word and music studies, to define its subject, objectives, and methodology and to describe the field's state of the art. Within the broader context of generic, structural, performative, and ideological considerations concerning the manifold interrelations between literature and music, contributors explore wide-ranging topics, such as the vexing question of terminology (e.g. 'word and music', 'melopoetics', 'interart', 'intermedial', 'transmedial'); inquiry into the meaning, narrative potential, and verbalization of music; analysis of texted music (the Lied and opera) and instrumental music; and discussion of individual issues (e.g. 'ekphrasis', 'musicalization of fiction', 'word music', and 'verbal music') and interart loanwords (e.g. 'narrativity', 'counterpoint', and 'leitmotif').

Author : Małgorzata Gamrat
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789004548862

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Franz Liszt’s Songs for Voice and Piano by Małgorzata Gamrat Pdf

How does a Romantic composer approach the poetry he sets: as raw material to be remade, a pretext for self-expression, a sanctified artefact, or a message to be illustrated with music? In my book, I examine Franz Liszt’s songs for voice and piano, which remain little known to scholars, artists, and music lovers alike. The objective is to present Liszt’s songs in all their complexity and diversity as well as identifying the key elements of the composer’s broadly understood song-writing technique – both those that make him unique and those that relate him to the European tradition. This approach also makes it possible to shed light on a major though previously neglected aspect of the composer’s workshop, namely, his work with the poetic text, which to Liszt was just as important as the musical setting.

Author : Rufus Hallmark
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135854584

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German Lieder in the Nineteenth Century by Rufus Hallmark Pdf

German Lieder in the Nineteenth-Century provides a detailed introduction to the German lied. Beginning with its origin in the literary and musical culture of Germany in the nineteenth-century, the book covers individual composers, including Shubert, Schumann, Brahms, Strauss, Mahler and Wolf, the literary sources of lieder, the historical and conceptual issues of song cycles, and issues of musical technique and style in performance practice. Written by eminent music scholars in the field, each chapter includes detailed musical examples and analysis. The second edition has been revised and updated to include the most recent research of each composer and additional musical examples.

Author : Laura Tunbridge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521896443

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The Song Cycle by Laura Tunbridge Pdf

Investigates how other types of music have influenced the scope of the song cycle, from operas and symphonies to popular song --

Author : Gordon Sly,Michael R. Callahan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000219760

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Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Song Cycles by Gordon Sly,Michael R. Callahan Pdf

Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Song Cycles: Analytical Pathways Toward Performance presents analyses of fourteen song cycles composed after the turn of the twentieth century, with a focus on offering ways into the musical and poetic structure of each cycle to performers, scholars, and students alike. Ranging from familiar works of twentieth-century music by composers such as Schoenberg, Britten, Poulenc, and Shostakovich to lesser-known works by Van Wyk, Sviridov, Wheeler, and Sánchez, this collection of essays captures the diversity of the song cycle repertoire in contemporary classical music. The contributors bring their own analytical perspectives and methods, considering musical structures, the composers' selection of texts, how poetic narratives are expressed, and historical context. Informed by music history, music theory, and performance, Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Song Cycles offers an essential guide into the contemporary art-music song cycle for performers, scholars, students, and anyone seeking to understand this unique genre.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004537996

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Music in the Apocalyptic Mode by Anonim Pdf

In this volume, the first panoramic study of music in the apocalyptic mode, an international and trans-disciplinary array of scholars and composers explore the resonance of the ancient biblical Revelation of John across the centuries in musical works as diverse as El Cant de la Sibil·la, the Dies Irae, cantatas and oratorios by Bach and Telemann, Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, Schoenberg’s Second String Quartet, African American Spirituals, Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la fin du temps, Christian “ApokRock,” Hip-hop, Grimes’s album Miss Anthropocene, and the songs of Bob Marley and Bob Dylan. This innovative volume will engage scholars, students, and all those interested in the intersection of music, religion, history, and popular culture.

Author : Suzanne M. Lodato,Suzanne Aspden,Walter Bernhart
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 9042010037

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Essays in Honor of Steven Paul Scher and on Cultural Identity and the Musical Stage by Suzanne M. Lodato,Suzanne Aspden,Walter Bernhart Pdf

The eighteen interdisciplinary essays in this volume were presented in 2001 in Sydney, Australia, at the Third International Conference on Word and Music Studies, which was sponsored by The International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA). The conference celebrated the sixty-fifth birthday of Steven Paul Scher, arguably the central figure in word and music studies during the last thirty-five years. The first section of this volume comprises ten articles that discuss, or are methodologically based upon, Scher's many analyses of and critical commentaries on the field, particularly on interrelationships between words and music. The authors cover such topics as semiotics, intermediality, hermeneutics, the de-essentialization of the arts, and the works of a wide range of literary figures and composers that include Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Proust, T. S. Eliot, Goethe, Hölderlin, Mann, Britten, Schubert, Schumann, and Wagner. The second section consists of a second set of papers presented at the conference that are devoted to a different area of word and music studies: cultural identity and the musical stage. Eight scholars investigate - and often problematize - widespread assumptions regarding 'national' and 'cultural' music, language, plots, and production values in musical stage works. Topics include the National Socialists' construction of German national identity; reception-based examinations of cultural identity and various "national" opera styles; and the means by which composers, librettists, and lyricists have attempted to establish national or cultural identity through their stage works.

Author : Natasha Loges,Laura Tunbridge
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253047021

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German Song Onstage by Natasha Loges,Laura Tunbridge Pdf

A singer in an evening dress, a grand piano. A modest-sized audience, mostly well-dressed and silver-haired, equipped with translation booklets. A program consisting entirely of songs by one or two composers. This is the way of the Lieder recital these days. While it might seem that this style of performance is a long-standing tradition, German Song Onstage demonstrates that it is not. For much of the 19th century, the songs of Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, and Brahms were heard in the home, salon, and, no less significantly, on the concert platform alongside orchestral and choral works. A dedicated program was rare, a dedicated audience even more so. The Lied was a genre with both more private and more public associations than is commonly recalled. The contributors to this volume explore a broad range of venues, singers, and audiences in distinct places and time periods—including the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, and Germany—from the mid-19th century through the early 20th century. These historical case studies are set alongside reflections from a selection of today's leading musicians, offering insights on current Lied practices that will inform future generations of performers, scholars, and connoisseurs. Together these case studies unsettle narrow and elitist assumptions about what it meant and still means to present German song onstage by providing a transnational picture of historical Lieder performance, and opening up discussions about the relationship between history and performance today.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004334069

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Word and Music Studies by Anonim Pdf

The eighteen interdisciplinary essays in this volume were presented in 2001 in Sydney, Australia, at the Third International Conference on Word and Music Studies, which was sponsored by The International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA). The conference celebrated the sixty-fifth birthday of Steven Paul Scher, arguably the central figure in word and music studies during the last thirty-five years. The first section of this volume comprises ten articles that discuss, or are methodologically based upon, Scher’s many analyses of and critical commentaries on the field, particularly on interrelationships between words and music. The authors cover such topics as semiotics, intermediality, hermeneutics, the de-essentialization of the arts, and the works of a wide range of literary figures and composers that include Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Proust, T. S. Eliot, Goethe, Hölderlin, Mann, Britten, Schubert, Schumann, and Wagner.The second section consists of a second set of papers presented at the conference that are devoted to a different area of word and music studies: cultural identity and the musical stage. Eight scholars investigate – and often problematize – widespread assumptions regarding ‘national’ and ‘cultural’ music, language, plots, and production values in musical stage works. Topics include the National Socialists’ construction of German national identity; reception-based examinations of cultural identity and various “national” opera styles; and the means by which composers, librettists, and lyricists have attempted to establish national or cultural identity through their stage works.