Lyric Cousins: Poetry and Musical Form

ISBN-13: 9781474432627 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 240 str.

Fiona Sampson

Opis

Today, poetry and art music occupy similar cultural positions. This is a study of these two formal craft traditions that is concerned with the similarities in their roles, structures, projects and capacities.

Spis treści

Introduction: A Little Conversation; 1. About Time; 2. Abstract Form; 3. Drawing the Line; 4. Chromaticism; 5. Density; 6. The Meaning of ‘Meaning’; 7. Song; 8. And Story Came Too: from Epic to Opera; 9. Closer Still: the Total Artwork; 10. The Consolations of Tradition; 11. Radical Measures; 12. Performance: the Role of the Audience.