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Author | : James H. Donelan |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2008-03-24 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1139471147 |
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James H. Donelan describes how two poets, a philosopher and a composer – Hölderlin, Wordsworth, Hegel and Beethoven – developed an idea of self-consciousness based on music at the turn of the nineteenth century. This idea became an enduring cultural belief: the understanding of music as an ideal representation of the autonomous creative mind. Against a background of political and cultural upheaval, these four major figures – all born in 1770 – developed this idea in both metaphorical and actual musical structures, thereby establishing both the theory and the practice of asserting self-identity in music. Beethoven still carries the image of the heroic composer today; this book describes how it originated in both his music and in how others responded to him. Bringing together the fields of philosophy, musicology, and literary criticism, Donelan shows how this development emerged from the complex changes in European cultural life taking place between 1795 and 1831.
Author | : John A. Minahan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Download Word Like a Bell Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Music was supremely important to the Romantic poets, particularly to John Keats. In this first book-length study on the subject, John A. Minahan explores Keats's work in relation to the art of music. Word Like a Bell considers Keats's major poems as well as his letters and minor verse. Writing in a jargon-free style, Minahan examines the relationship between the musical and literary manifestations of Romantic theory, and the connection between that theory and Keats's work. He then offers new insights into Keats's poetry and his era, among them a detailed explanation of why the "Great Odes" ought to be considered a single extended piece. Also receiving extensive treatment are Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, whose ideas and creations illustrate how music influences every aspect of Romantic thought. In his exploration of the relationship between different but related arts, Minahan both locates Romanticism in its historical and aesthetic context and expands the capabilities of literary criticism. He finds that music enables Romanticism to voice its fundamental concern about time and its passage, and shows us that an understanding of poetry's relation to music can enrich our appreciation of both arts while deepening our own experiences of time. This interdisciplinary study will appeal to readers of poetry and literary criticism and to professional musicians who would increase their understanding of an age's art, songwriters interested in word/music relations, and poets who crave an extensive discussion of poetic technique and craft that uses music as a way to clarify such points.
Author | : Annie Edwards Powell Dodds |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : Aesthetics |
ISBN | : |
Download The Romantic Theory of Poetry Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Magda Polo Pujandas |
Publisher | : Ed. Universidad de Cantabria |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2016-05-31 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 8481027766 |
Download Pure and Programme Music in the Romanticism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
One of the most difficult challenges a music theoretician faces, be it historically, philosophically or in other aspects, is that of correctly and precisely framing the meaning that music has in a specific moment: deducing the “why” and revealing the secret hidden within. The book Pure and Programme Music in the Romanticism, a rigorous and indispensable study to understand music in the period in which music as an expression of feelings, begins to reach the threshold of the sublime –primarily focusing attention on what pure and programme music represent. Both types of music are instrumental, but the difference between them is that the first one, pure music, exists on its own, and for its own sake, establishing an iron-clad alliance with the form. Programme music is inspired by other forms of artistic expression, especially literature, and is indelibly linked with the content. However, halfway between these two types of music, a new one is born: absolute music. This music is the result from the dialectic established between the pure and programme, exactly in the middle of two opposing philosophies, that of Idealism and that of Materialism. All of this context described in this book is what defines the essence of Romantic music but also what allows us to understand the music of the twentieth century and that of today, because the controversy between pure music and programme music has represented, in the history of western musical thought, the turning point that led to the creation of the Gesamtkunstwerk (Total Work of Art) and the relationship between music and film, for example, as well as other artistic expressions.
Author | : Carl Dahlhaus |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0520067487 |
Download Between Romanticism and Modernism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This text covers Nietzsche's youthful analysis of the contradictions in Wagner's doctrine, the question of periodicization in romantic and neo-romantic music, and the true significance of musical nationalism.
Author | : Brad Bucknell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521660280 |
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Bucknell's study investigates how music, as a discrete artistic mode of expression and a recurring theme in the work of these four writers, reveals the intricate and varied nature of the modernist project."--Jacket.
Author | : Jessica K. Quillin |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2016-03-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317055535 |
Download Shelley and the Musico-Poetics of Romanticism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Addressing a gap in Shelley studies, Jessica K. Quillin explores the poet's lifelong interest in music. Quillin connects the trope of music with Shelley's larger formal aesthetic, political, and philosophical concerns, showing that music offers a new critical lens through which to view such familiar Shelleyan concerns as the status of the poetic, figural language, and the philosophical problem posed by idealism versus skepticism. Quillin's book uncovers the implications of Shelley's use of music by means of four musico-poetic concerns: the inherently interdisciplinary nature of musical imagery and figurative language; the rhythmic and sonoric dimensions of poetry; the extension of poetry into the performative realms of the theatre and drawing room through close links between most poetic genres and music; and the transformation of poetry into music through the setting and adaptation of poetic lyrics to music. Ultimately, Quillin argues, Shelley exhibits a fundamental recognition of an interdependence between music and poetry which is expressed in the form and content of his highly sonorous works. Equating music with love allows him to create a radical model in which poetry is the highest form of imaginative expression, one that can affect the mind and the senses at once and potentially bring about the perfectibility of mankind through a unique mode of visionary experience.
Author | : Marc R. Plamondon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 700 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Music and literature |
ISBN | : |
Download The Musical Aesthetics of the Poetry of Tennyson and Browning Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Marshall Brown |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2014-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0295800801 |
Download The Tooth That Nibbles at the Soul Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Tooth that Nibbles at the Soul brings together Marshall Brown’s new and previously published writings on literature and music. These essays engage questions that are central to the development of literature, music, and the arts in the period from Romanticism at the end of the eighteenth century to the avant-garde movements of the early twentieth, a period in which the modern evolution of the arts is coupled with a rise in the significance of music as artistic form. With a special focus on lyric poetry and canonical composers including Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, and Schubert, Brown ties the growing prominence of music in this period to the modernist principle of abstraction. Music, as Brown provocatively notes, conveys meaning without explicitly saying anything. This principle of abstraction could be taken as the overriding formula for modernist art in general; and it explains why in this period music becomes the model to which all the other arts, in particular painting and literature, aspire. Brown’s title, taken from a poem by Emily Dickinson, reminds us that abstraction -- musical and artistic – is anything but toothless; indeed, it “nibbles at the soul” in subtle and enduring ways. Throughout his wide-ranging and erudite analysis, Brown’s goal is to pinpoint the nature of music’s bite and to illuminate the shared elements of literature and music. While there are many previous comparisons of music and poetry, few are systematic or based on a solid knowledge of both literary criticism and musicology. Brown’s essays can be enjoyed by a general, well-read public not trained in either music or eighteenth-century literature, as well as by an audience steeped in sophisticated (if not technical) musical analysis.
Author | : Peter le Huray |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1988-04-07 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780521359016 |
Download Music and Aesthetics in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is an abridged, paperback edition of Peter le Huray and James Day's invaluable anthology of writings concerned with the role of music in eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century aesthetics. This volume retains all the most important and significant items from the original hardcover edition. Over fifty writers are represented here, including such major figures as Rousseau, Kant, Schlegel, Schopenhauer and Hegel, and the useful introductions and biographical details of the original are also retained. The aesthetic literature of the period is profuse but this carefully edited volume offers a balanced selection which illuminates the ways people experienced music and how they came to an understanding in particular of the new music of their day.