[PDF] Symphonic Poem eBook

Author : Joanne Cormac
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 44,81 MB
Release : 2017-10-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 1316857859

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Franz Liszt was preoccupied with a fundamental but difficult question: what is the content of music? His answer lay in his symphonic poems, a group of orchestral pieces intended to depict a variety of subjects drawn from literature, visual art and drama. Today, the symphonic poems are usually seen as alternatives to the symphony post-Beethoven. Analysts stress their symphonic logic, thereby neglecting their 'extramusical' subject matter. This book takes a different approach: it returns these influential pieces to their original performance context in the theatre, arguing that the symphonic poem is as much a dramatic as a symphonic genre. This is evidenced in new analyses of the music that examines the theatricality of these pieces and their depiction of voices, mise-en-scène, gesture and action. Simultaneously, the book repositions Liszt's legacy within theatre history, arguing that his contributions should be placed alongside those of Mendelssohn, Berlioz and Wagner.

Author : Joanne Cormac
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 19,7 MB
Release : 2017-10-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 1107181410

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A fresh evaluation of Liszt's symphonic poems, based on contextual, philosophical and musical evidence.

Author : Michael Allis
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 19,98 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Music
ISBN : 1783275286

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The Symphonic Poem in Britain 1850-1950 aims to raise the status of the genre generally and in Britain specifically. The volume reaffirms British composers' confidence in dealing with literary texts and takes advantage of the contributors' interdisciplinary expertise by situating discussions of the tone poem in Britain in a variety of historical, analytical and cultural contexts. This book highlights some of the continental models that influenced British composers, and identifies a range of issues related to perceptions of the genre. Richard Strauss became an important figure in Britain during this time, not only in terms of the clear impact of his tone poems, but the debates over their value and even their ethics. A focus on French orchestral music in Britain represents a welcome addition to scholarly debate, and links to issues in several other chapters. The historical development of the genre, the impact of compositional models, issues highlighted in critical reception as well as programming strategies all contribute to a richer understanding of the symphonic poem in Britain. Works by British composers discussed in more detail include William Wallace's Villon (1909), Gustav Holst's Beni Mora(1909-10), Hubert Parry's From Death to Life (1914), John Ireland's Mai-Dun (1921), and Frank Bridge's orchestral 'poems' (1903-15).

Author : Keith T. Johns
Publisher : Pendragon Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 21,79 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Symphonic poem
ISBN : 9780945193401

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"Each symphonic poem is discussed in terms of its melodic and harmonic organization, origins in surviving sketches and manuscript drafts, and reception by critics in major German cities, as well as in Paris, London, and New York. The volume is illustrated with ... facsimiles and full-page musical examples"--Publisher.

Author : Carole Miller Genshaft
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,47 MB
Release : 2003-02-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780810945050

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For me, there is no distinction between life and art. Folk art has to do with families and communities. It's timeless. It permeates the soul. It's the way people do things that's passed from generation to generation.

Author : Steven Vande Moortele
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 35,93 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Music
ISBN : 9058677516

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Two-Dimensional Sonata Form is the first book dedicated to the combination of the movements of a multimovement sonata cycle with an overarching single-movement form that is itself organized as a sonata form. Drawing on a variety of historical and recent approaches to musical form (e.g., Marxian and Schoenbergian Formenlehre, Caplin's theory of formal functions, and Hepokoski and Darcy's Sonata Theory), it begins by developing an original theoretical framework for the analysis of this type of form that is so characteristic of the later nineteenth and early twentieth century. It then offers an in-depth examination of nine exemplary works by four Central European composers: the Piano Sonata in B minor and the symphonic poems Tasso and Die Ideale by Franz Liszt; Richard Strauss's tone poems Don Juan and Ein Heldenleben; the symphonic poem Pelleas und Melisande, the First String Quartet and the First Chamber Symphony by Arnold Schoenberg, and Alexander Zemlinsky's Second String Quartet.