Song Acts

Writings on Words and Music

Lawrence Kramer (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

484 Seiten

2017
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-34212-5 (ISBN)

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This volume collects twenty of Lawrence Kramer’s seminal writings--some significantly revised for republication--on art song (especially Lieder), opera, and word-music relationships. Topics include text-setting, subjectivity, the sublime, mourning, sexuality, decadence, orientalism, the body, Romanticism, modernity, and cultural change.

This volume collects twenty of Lawrence Kramer’s seminal writings on art song (especially Lieder), opera, and word-music relationships. All examine the formative role of culture in musical meaning and performance, and all seek to demonstrate the complexity and nuance that arise when words and music interact. The diverse topics include words and music, music and poetry, subjectivity, the sublime, mourning, sexuality, decadence, orientalism, the body, war, Romanticism, modernity, and cultural change. Several of the earlier essays have been revised for this volume, which also contains a preface by the author and a foreword by Richard Leppert. The volume should be essential reading for scholars, students, performing musicians, and other music-lovers interested in musicology, word-music relationships, cultural studies, aesthetics, and intermediality.

Lawrence Kramer, Ph.D (1972, Yale), Distinguished Professor of English and Music at Fordham University, has written prolifically on music, most recently in a trilogy on musical understanding: Interpreting Music, Expression and Truth, and The Thought of Music (University of California Press).

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments

1 Song [1984]
2 The Schubert Lied: Romantic Form and Romantic Consciousness [1986]
3 Performance and Social Meaning in the Lied: Schubert’s Erster Verlust [1994]
4 “Syringa”: John Ashbery and Elliott Carter [1984; 1980]
5 Decadence and Desire: The Wilhelm Meister Songs of Wolf and Schubert [1987]
6 Hugo Wolf: Subjectivity in the Fin-de-Siècle Lied [1996/2009]
7 Recognizing Schubert: Musical Subjectivity, Cultural Change, and Jane Campion’s The Portrait of a Lady [2002]
8 “Little Pearl Teardrops”: Schubert, Schumann, and the Tremulous Body of Romantic Song [2002]
9 The Harem Threshold: Turkish Music and Greek Love in Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” [1998]
10 Like Falling Leaves: The Erotics of Mourning in Four Drum-Taps Settings [2002]
11 Murderous Women in German Opera [2008]
12 “Longindyingcall”: of Music, Modernity, and the Sirens [2006]
13 Recalling the Sublime: The Logic of Creation in Haydn’s Creation [2009]
14 Wagner’s Gold Standard: Tannhäuser and the General Equivalent [2010]
15 The Talking Wound and the Foolish Question: Symbolization in Parsifal [2006]
16 The Great American Opera: Klinghoffer, Streetcar, and the Exception [2007]
17 Modern Madrigalisms: Elliott Carter and the Aesthetics of Art Song [2014]

Appendix: Unsung Words and Music
18 The Strange Case of Beethoven’s Coriolan: Romantic Aesthetics, Modern Subjectivity, and the Cult of Shakespeare
19 Tolstoy’s Beethoven, Beethoven’s Tolstoy: The Kreutzer Sonata [1997/2006]
20 Subjectivity Unbound: Music, Language, Culture [2003/2012]

Erscheinungsdatum	04.07.2017
Reihe/Serie	Word and Music Studies ; 16
Zusatzinfo	6 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch; deutsch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	888 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	90-04-34212-5 / 9004342125
ISBN-13	978-90-04-34212-5 / 9789004342125
Zustand	Neuware