The Song Cycle - 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 The Song Cycle write by Laura Tunbridge. This book was released on 2010. The Song Cycle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Investigates how other types of music have influenced the scope of the song cycle, from operas and symphonies to popular song --
Twentieth- and Twenty-first-century Song Cycles
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.
The Great Song Cycle
The Great Song Cycle - 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 The Great Song Cycle write by Joanna Wallfisch. This book was released on 2019-09-01. The Great Song Cycle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An adventurer at heart, in August 2016 Joanna embarked on a solo concert tour of the West Coast of the USA...by bicycle. Over the course of 1,154 miles (1,860 km) she performed 16 solo shows between Portland and Los Angeles carrying her musical instruments, camping gear, and everything else she needed upon her bike. This book follows Joanna’s journey from the moment the idea was sparked in Brooklyn to the triumphant completion at Santa Monica Pier, and everything in between. Throw in some sex, drugs, cooperative accomodation services, sleazy men and, of course, more than a little music, and Joanna will take you on the ride of her life.
Word and Music Studies
Word and Music Studies - 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 Word and Music Studies write by Walter Bernhart. This book was released on 2001. Word and Music Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume assembles twelve interdisciplinary essays that were originally presented at the Second International Conference on Word and Music Studies at Ann Arbor, MI, in 1999, a conference organized by the International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA). The contributions to this volume focus on two centres of interest. The first deals with general issues of literature and music relations from culturalist, historical, reception-aesthetic and cognitive points of view. It covers issues such as conceptual problems in devising transdisciplinary histories of both arts, cultural functions of opera as a means of reflecting postcolonial national identity, the problem of verbalizing musical experience in nineteenth-century aesthetics and of understanding reception processes triggered by musicalized fiction. The second centre of interest deals with a specific genre of vocal music as an obvious area of word and music interaction, namely the song cycle. As a musico-literary genre, the song cycle not only permits explorations of relations between text and music in individual songs but also raises the question if, and to what extent words and/or music contribute to creating a larger unity beyond the limits of single songs. Elucidating both of these issues with stimulating diversity the essays in this section highlight classic nineteenth- and twentieth-century song cycles by Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Hugo Wolf, Richard Strauss and Benjamin Britten and also include the discussion of a modern successor of the song cycle, the concept album as part of today's popular culture.
Death in Winterreise
Death in Winterreise - 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 Death in Winterreise write by Lauri Suurpää. This book was released on 2014-01-06. Death in Winterreise available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Lauri Suurpää brings together two rigorous methodologies, Greimassian semiotics and Schenkerian analysis, to provide a unique perspective on the expressive power of Franz Schubert's song cycle. Focusing on the final songs, Suurpää deftly combines textual and tonal analysis to reveal death as a symbolic presence if not actual character in the musical narrative. Suurpää demonstrates the incongruities between semantic content and musical representation as it surfaces throughout the final songs. This close reading of the winter songs, coupled with creative applications of theory and a thorough history of the poetic and musical genesis of this work, brings new insights to the study of text-music relationships and the song cycle.
