Making Words Sing - Nineteenth- And Twentieth-Century Song

Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Dunsby is Professor of Music at The University of Reading. He is the founding editor of the journal Music Analysis! and author of numerous articles on music of the last two centuries. His books include Music Analysis in Theory and Practice! co-authored with Arnold Whittall! and Performing Music: Shared Concerns. Klappentext In a wide-ranging discussion! Jonathan Dunsby considers the nature of vocality in songs of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. An introduction with no words, with intended words, and untheory; 2. A love song: Brahms's Von ewiger Liebe; 3. Boundless opulence: postscripts on Schoenberg's Premonition; 4. Interlude on peace, laws, flowers, and men flying; 5. To Amherst via Vienna; 6. By way of brief conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Jonathan Dunsby, Jonathan (University of Reading) Dunsby
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 28.08.2009
• EAN: 9780521120463
• ISBN: 978-0-521-12046-3
• Pages: 164
• Catégorie: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Musique > Général, dictionnaires