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Theoretische analyse van de wijze waarop zeven vooraanstaande componisten uit de 18e tot en met de 20e eeuw in hun vocale werken muzikaal uitdrukking gaven aan de inhoud van de zangteksten.
The author of this text explored for over four decades how composers in the German tradition set poetry and drama to music. The book is a unified collection, reproducing papers on music by Mozart, Schubert, Wagner, Schoenberg, and Babbitt, many of which have become classics in t…
Combining many of David Lewin's articles on song and opera with chapters on songs of Brahms, Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann and Milton Babbitt, this collection constitutes a statement concerning the methodological problems associated with interpretation of texted music.
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…