Author : Gordon Cameron Sly
Release : 2020
Genre : Song cycles
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Twentieth- and Twenty-first-century Song Cycles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Twentieth- and Twenty-first-century Song Cycles write by Gordon Cameron Sly. This book was released on 2020. Twentieth- and Twenty-first-century Song Cycles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.