Songs of Jean Sibelius (eBook)

Poetry, Music, Performance

Gustav Djupsjobacka (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2023
436 Seiten
Boydell & Brewer Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80543-106-0 (ISBN)

Infos

A landmark in Sibelius scholarship, this is the first book that presents all of Sibelius's solo art songs in their musical and aesthetic context. Indispensable for scholars and performers alike.This is the first book to discuss the complete solo art songs of Jean Sibelius and to locate them in their musical, literary and artistic context. The book is organized around the poets Sibelius set to music and the literary themes associated with them, thus providing invaluable information for the scholar, student and performer. The musical and aesthetic contextualisation of the songs will help to enable new interpretations on the performance stage.

Inhalt

1. Wrestling with the text
2. Sibelius and the poems of the idealistic realist Runeberg
3. Idle wishes and summer nights
4. Diamonds and tears - Runeberg's contemporaries in Finland
5. Longing for the eternal - 19th-century poets from Sweden
6. Realism and emerging symbolism
7. Solace of the harp, song to my tongue - other 19th -century poets in Sweden
8. Rapid riders and hoodwinked women
9. Betrayal, urbanity and decadence
10. O, kämst du doch!
11. A last Kalevala excursion

Appendix
List of Sibelius's songs by opus number
Alphabetical list of Sibelius's songs without opus numbers
Alphabetical list of Sibelius's songs by English title
Alphabetical list of Sibelius's poets
Text of the two lost songs, op. 72 nos. 1 and 2
Text to the melodrama Ett ensamt skidspår (Gripenberg)

Bibliography

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.12.2023
• Zusatzinfo: 33 music exx. and 27 b/w illus.
• Verlagsort: Woodbridge
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Instrumentenkunde
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
• Schlagworte: Ernst Josephson • Finland • Karl August Tavaststjerna • runeberg • viktor rydberg • zacharias topelius
• ISBN-10: 1-80543-106-4 / 1805431064
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80543-106-0 / 9781805431060