Essays on Literature and Music (1985 – 2013) by Walter Bernhart

Essays on Literature and Music (1985 – 2013) by Walter Bernhart
Title Essays on Literature and Music (1985 – 2013) by Walter Bernhart PDF eBook
Author Walter Bernhart
Publisher BRILL
Pages 515
Release 2015-07-28
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9004302743

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This volume is dedicated to the musico-literary oeuvre of Walter Bernhart, professor of English literature at Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz/Austria and pioneer in the field of intermedial relations between literature and other arts and media. It renders accessible a wide variety of texts which are sometimes no longer easily retrievable. The 37 texts collected here in chronological order span the period from 1985 to 2013 and thematically range from contributions to opera programmes and the discussion of musical aspects of Romantic and modernist poetry to inquiries into individual operas and composers as well as into theoretical aspects of word and music relations (e. g. the ways of setting poetry to music, musico-literary ‘comparative poetics’, the concept of ‘genre’ in music and literature, iconicity in both media, their narrative as well as metareferential and illusionist capacities). The volume is of relevance to literary scholars and musicologists but also to all those with an interest in intermediality studies in general and in the relations between literature and music in particular.

Music in the Apocalyptic Mode

Music in the Apocalyptic Mode
Title Music in the Apocalyptic Mode PDF eBook
Author
Publisher BRILL
Pages 427
Release 2023-04-03
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9004537996

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In this volume, the first panoramic study of music in the apocalyptic mode, an international and trans-disciplinary array of scholars and composers explore the resonance of the ancient biblical Revelation of John across the centuries in musical works as diverse as El Cant de la Sibil·la, the Dies Irae, cantatas and oratorios by Bach and Telemann, Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, Schoenberg’s Second String Quartet, African American Spirituals, Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la fin du temps, Christian “ApokRock,” Hip-hop, Grimes’s album Miss Anthropocene, and the songs of Bob Marley and Bob Dylan. This innovative volume will engage scholars, students, and all those interested in the intersection of music, religion, history, and popular culture.

Word, Sound and Music in Radio Drama

Word, Sound and Music in Radio Drama
Title Word, Sound and Music in Radio Drama PDF eBook
Author
Publisher BRILL
Pages 377
Release 2023-11-27
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9004549609

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This collection offers an in-depth study of music’s narrative functions in radio drama, whether original or adapted, alongside speech and sound. It features a range of historical perspectives as well as case studies from Australia, Europe and North America, highlighting broadcasting institutions such as the BBC, RAI, ABC, WDR and SWR, from early radio to the medium’s postwar golden age and contemporary productions. Not limited to classical or popular music, the chapters also pay attention to electronic varieties and musical uses of language, in addition to intermedial exchanges with other art forms such as theatre, opera and film. In doing so, the present volume sits at the crossroads of various disciplines: musicology, narratology, history, literary, media, sound and radio studies.

Franz Liszt’s Songs for Voice and Piano

Franz Liszt’s Songs for Voice and Piano
Title Franz Liszt’s Songs for Voice and Piano PDF eBook
Author Małgorzata Gamrat
Publisher BRILL
Pages 404
Release 2023-11-27
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9004548866

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How does a Romantic composer approach the poetry he sets: as raw material to be remade, a pretext for self-expression, a sanctified artefact, or a message to be illustrated with music? In my book, I examine Franz Liszt’s songs for voice and piano, which remain little known to scholars, artists, and music lovers alike. The objective is to present Liszt’s songs in all their complexity and diversity as well as identifying the key elements of the composer’s broadly understood song-writing technique – both those that make him unique and those that relate him to the European tradition. This approach also makes it possible to shed light on a major though previously neglected aspect of the composer’s workshop, namely, his work with the poetic text, which to Liszt was just as important as the musical setting.

Baudelaire in Song

Baudelaire in Song
Title Baudelaire in Song PDF eBook
Author Helen Abbott
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 212
Release 2017
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 019879469X

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This book looks at a key 50-year period (1880-1930) in France and Europe, to see how and why Baudelaire's poetry has been set to music in classical music, how composers have completely manipulated the texts, which poems they have chosen and why.

Britten's Donne, Hardy and Blake Songs

Britten's Donne, Hardy and Blake Songs
Title Britten's Donne, Hardy and Blake Songs PDF eBook
Author Gordon Cameron Sly
Publisher Boydell & Brewer
Pages 199
Release 2023-04-18
Genre Music
ISBN 1783277718

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Presents a first analytical study that looks at the overarching designs of Benjamin Britten's John Donne, Thomas Hardy and William Blake solo song cycles. By questioning when a group of songs ought to be understood not merely as a collection, but as a cycle, Sly shows that Britten's personal selection and arrangement is indispensable to understanding these cycles' extra-musical communication. The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Winter Words (poems by Hardy) and Songs and Proverbs of William Blake - composed in 1945, 1953 and 1965 respectively - each represent a philosophical exploration. The terrains set out by the three poets are distinct, but also engage one another in important and unexpected ways. Their cyclic architectures are expressed not only in their poetic arrangement, but in their musical settings. Key relationships and motive remain central for Britten. Keys convey a network of interconnections, create groupings of songs, and establish levels of tonal affinity or distance. Motive - often intervals that can fit into any melodic, harmonic or rhythmic context - is used to create aural affinities between or among individual songs. This book also offers a broader narrative revealing Britten's evolving philosophical convictions in post-war Britain. While it may not be the case that Britten intended any broader philosophical comment, the works together outline the cold and brittle state that emerges from loss and aligns with their composer's increasingly stark outlook on humanity.

The Lives and Legacy of Kim Sisŭp (1435–1493)

The Lives and Legacy of Kim Sisŭp (1435–1493)
Title The Lives and Legacy of Kim Sisŭp (1435–1493) PDF eBook
Author Vladimir Glomb
Publisher BRILL
Pages 304
Release 2023-05-25
Genre History
ISBN 9004519084

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The Lives and Legacy of Kim Sisŭp (1435–1493) offers an account of the most extraordinary figure of Korean literature and intellectual history. The present work narrates the fascinating story of a prodigious child, acclaimed poet, author of the first Korean novel, Buddhist monk, model subject, Confucian recluse and Daoist master. No other Chosŏn scholar or writer has been venerated in both Confucian shrines and Buddhist temples, had his works widely read in Tokugawa Japan and became an integral part of the North Korean literary canon. The nine studies and further materials presented in this volume provide a detailed look on the various aspects of Kim Sisŭp’s life and work as well as a reflection of both traditional and modern narratives surrounding his legacy. Contributors are: Vladimír Glomb, Gregory N. Evon, Dennis Wuerthner, Barbara Wall, Kim Daeyeol, Miriam Löwensteinová, Anastasia A. Guryeva, Sixiang Wang, and Diana Yüksel.