UID:
almafu_9959243212702883
Format:
1 online resource (x, 153 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-107-15017-5
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1-280-51615-1
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0-511-21436-7
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0-511-21615-7
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0-511-21078-7
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0-511-31505-8
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0-511-48170-5
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0-511-21255-0
Content:
What makes a classical song a song? In a wide-ranging 2004 discussion, covering such contrasting composers as Brahms and Berberian, Schubert and Kurtág, 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 subjected 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. Schoenberg figures conspicuously as both songsmith and theorist, and some easily comprehensible Schenkerian approaches are used to convey ideas of musical time and expressive focus. In this work of scholarship and theoretical depth, Professor Dunsby's highly original approach and engaging style will ensure its appeal to all practising musicians and students of Romantic and modern music.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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An introduction with no words, with intended words, and untheory -- A love song : Brahms's 'Von ewiger Liebe' -- Boundless opulence : postscripts on Schoenberg's premonition -- Interlude on peace, laws, flowers, and men flying -- To Amherst via Vienna -- By way of brief conclusion.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-12046-2
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-83661-1
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511481703
