Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Song Cycles

Analytical Pathways Toward Performance
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-22026-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 474 g

Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Song Cycles: Analytical Pathways Toward Performance presents analyses of fourteen song cycles composed after the turn of the twentieth century, with a focus on offering ways into the musical and poetic structure of each cycle to performers, scholars, and students alike. Ranging from familiar works of twentieth-century music by composers such as Schoenberg, Britten, Poulenc, and Shostakovich to lesser-known works by Van Wyk, Sviridov, Wheeler, and Sánchez, this collection of essays captures the diversity of the song cycle repertoire in contemporary classical music. The contributors bring their own analytical perspectives and methods, considering musical structures, the composers' selection of texts, how poetic narratives are expressed, and historical context.

Informed by music history, music theory, and performance, Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Song Cycles offers an essential guide into the contemporary art-music song cycle for performers, scholars, students, and anyone seeking to understand this unique genre.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sly, Gordon

Callahan, Michael R.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Sinfonische Musik & Ensembles
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Vokalmusik, Chormusik

Über Autor(innen)

Gordon Sly is Associate Professor of Music Theory at Michigan State University.

Michael R. Callahan is Associate Professor of Music Theory and Chairperson of the Music Theory Area at Michigan State University.