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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457720003321

Autore

Dunsby Jonathan

Titolo

Making words sing : nineteenth- and twentieth-century song / / Jonathan Dunsby [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004

ISBN

1-107-15017-5

1-280-51615-1

0-511-21436-7

0-511-21615-7

0-511-21078-7

0-511-31505-8

0-511-48170-5

0-511-21255-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 153 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

782.42168

Soggetti

Songs - Analysis, appreciation

Songs - 19th century - History and criticism

Songs - 20th century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-149) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.