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The rhythms of poetry and song -- Theories of musical rhythm and meter -- Hensel : lyrical expansions, elisions, and rhythmic flow -- Schubert : repetition, motion, and reflection -- Schumann : doubling and reverberation -- Brahms : metric cycles and performative time -- Wolf : …
This is an exploratopn of rhythm and meter in the 19th-century German Lied, including songs for voice and piano by Fanny Hensel née Mendelssohn, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, and Hugo Wolf. The Lied, as a genre, is characterised especially by the fusion of po…
Qualities of motion and emotion in song come from poetic images, melody, harmony, and voice leading, but they also come from rhythm and meter-the flow and articulation of words and music in time. This book explores rhythm and meter in the nineteenth-century German Lied, includin…
1. Introduction : because there is language there is poetry -- 2. Deliberate space -- 3. Tones of voice -- 4. Measures : the verse line -- 5. 'Free verse' -- 6. Rhyme and other noises -- 7. Stanza -- 8. Image, imagination, inspiration -- 9. Writing a poem now : philosophies of c…
"Authors, Audiences, and Old English Verse re-examines the Anglo-Saxon poetic tradition from the eighth to the eleventh centuries and reconsiders the significance of formulaic parallels and the nature of poetic authorship in Old English. Offering a new vision of much of Old Eng…
"The author offers a historical account of modernist poetic form and analyzes how poetry was read and written in the twentieth century. The rise of free verse in the early 1900s is commonly thought to be a resistance to or liberation from regimented meter, privileging instead an…
"Despite its global popularity, rap has received little scholarly attention in terms of its poetic features, perhaps because rap is so demonstrative and powerful, or because poetry scholars have been slow to recognize rap's poetic worth, or uncertainty about its legitimacy as a …
