David Lewin

Studies in Music with Text

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 422
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 245mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 748g
• ISBN-13: 9780195182088
• ISBN-10: 0195182081
• Artikelnr.: 21108153

Autorenporträt

David Lewin taught composition at UC Berkeley and at SUNY Stony Brook, and later taught music theory at Yale and Harvard Universities. His music-theoretic writings include many articles and two previous books: Generalized Musical Intervals and Transformations (1987), and Musical Form and Transformation (1993). He was the recipient of honorary degrees from the University of Chicago and from the New England Conservatory of Music for his work in music theory.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1.: Figaro's Mistakes
* 2.: Musical analysis as stage direction
* 3.: Crudel! perchè finora . . .
* Postscript.
* Section II
* Introduction.
* 4.: Music Theory, Phenomenology, and Modes of Perception
* 5.: Auf dem Flusse: Image and Background in a Schubert Song
* 6.: Ihr Bild
* Section III
* Introduction
* 7.: Clara Schumann's Setting of "Ich stand"
* 8.: R. Schumann's Anfangs wollt' ich: A study in Phrygian and modern
minor
* 9.: Auf einer Burg (In a fortress)
* Section IV
* Introduction
* 10.: Amfortas's Prayer to Titurel and the Role of D in Parsifal: The
Tonal Spaces of the Drama and the Enharmonic Cb/B
* 11.: Some Notes on Analyzing Wagner: The Ring and Parsifal
* 12.: Tristan-well-made-play and theater of passion; the teleology of
functional tonality and the self-propagation of transformational
atonality
* Section V
* 13.: Die Schwestern
* Section VI
* Introduction.
* 14.: Women's Voices and the Fundamental Bass
* 15.: Toward the Analysis of a Schoenberg Song (Op. 15, No. XI)
* 16.: A Way into Schoenberg's Opus 15, Number 7
* 17.: Vocal Meter in Schoenberg's Atonal Music, with a Note on a
Serial Haupstimme
* 18.: Moses und Aron: Some General Remarks, and Analytic Notes for Act
I, Scene 1
* Section VII
* Introduction.
* 19.: Some Problems and Resources of Music Theory