Making Words Sing: Nineteenth- And Twentieth-Century Song

ISBN-13: 9780521836616 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 164 str.

Jonathan Dunsby

Opis

What makes a classical song a song? Covering such contrasting composers as Brahms and Berberian, Schubert and Kurtag, Jonathan Dunsby considers the nature of vocality in songs of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The essence and scope of poetic and literary meaning in the Lied tradition is subject to close scrutiny against the backdrop of "new musicological" thinking and music-theoretical orthodoxies. The reader is thus offered the best insights available within an evidence-based approach to musical discourse.

Recenzje

Review of the hardback: '… a volume to shake up your thinking.' Classical Music

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. An introduction with no words, with intended words, and untheory; 2. A love song: Brahms's Von ewiger Liebe; 3. Boundless opulence: postscripts on Schoenberg's Premonition; 4. Interlude on peace, laws, flowers, and men flying; 5. To Amherst via Vienna; 6. By way of brief conclusion; Bibliography; Index.