Studies in Music with Text
Series: Oxford Studies in Music Theory;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 14 January 2010
- ISBN 9780195397031
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages432 pages
- Size 234x156x21 mm
- Weight 590 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 173 Music examples 0
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Short description:
Throughout his career, David Lewin laboured to make even the most abstract theory speak to the experience of the ordinary listener. This book combines many of Lewin's classic articles on song and opera with newly drafted chapters on songs of Brahms, Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann, and Milton Babbitt. Bound together by Lewin's cogent insight, the resulting collection constitutes a major statement concerning the methodological problems associated with interpretation of texted music.
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Hailed by the New Grove Dictionary of Music (2nd edition) as "the most original and far-ranging theorist of his generation," David Lewin (1933-2003) explored for over four decades how composers in the German tradition set poetry and drama to music. He conceived Studies in Music with Text as a unified collection, reproducing papers on music by Mozart, Schubert, Wagner, Schoenberg, and Babbitt, many of which have become classics in the fields of music theory and historical musicology. He also included new analytical essays on Mozart, Wagner, and Schubert, and provided fresh readings of selected songs by Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann, and Johannes Brahms.
The analyses collected here focus on how the music, from its small details to its large formal schemes, engages the poetic and dramatic dynamics of the works at hand, and how music and text enact each other reciprocally. A recurrent topic is the theatricality of texted music for the concert as well as operatic stage, and Lewin's perspectives offer many interpretive insights and conceptual perspectives for the musical performer. A methodological eclectic, Lewin cultivated a magisterial command of historical theories and thought deeply about how those theories could inform contemporary understanding. Analytical models by Zarlino, Schenker, Riemann, Rameau, and Babbitt are brought into play, and the range of poetic and dramatic questions that emerge are explored, concerning inter alia psychological and social identity, the relation of psychological inner worlds to phenomenal reality, and the narrowly biographical and broadly historical conditions of artistic creation. As it illuminates the richness and profundity of the language/music partnership, Studies in Music with Text offers incisive thinking about the scope--and limitations--of descriptive and analytical discourse about music.
Table of Contents:
Figaro's Mistakes
Musical analysis as stage direction
Crudel! perchè finora . . .
Postscript.
Section II
Introduction.
Music Theory, Phenomenology, and Modes of Perception
Auf dem Flusse: Image and Background in a Schubert Song
Ihr Bild
Section III
Introduction
Clara Schumann's Setting of "Ich stand"
R. Schumann's Anfangs wollt' ich: A study in Phrygian and modern minor
Auf einer Burg (In a fortress)
Section IV
Introduction
Amfortas's Prayer to Titurel and the Role of D in Parsifal: The Tonal Spaces of the Drama and the Enharmonic Cb/B
Some Notes on Analyzing Wagner: The Ring and Parsifal
Tristan-well-made-play and theater of passion; the teleology of functional tonality and the self-propagation of transformational atonality
Section V
Die Schwestern
Section VI
Introduction.
Women's Voices and the Fundamental Bass
Toward the Analysis of a Schoenberg Song (Op. 15, No. XI)
A Way into Schoenberg's Opus 15, Number 7
Vocal Meter in Schoenberg's Atonal Music, with a Note on a Serial Haupstimme
Moses und Aron: Some General Remarks, and Analytic Notes for Act I, Scene 1
Section VII
Introduction.
Some Problems and Resources of Music Theory
