Focusing on songs by the troubadours and trouvères from
the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries,
Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera
contends that song is not best analyzed as "words plus
music" ...but rather as a distinctive way of sounding words .
Rather than situating them in their immediate period, Sarah Kay
fruitfully listens for and traces crosscurrents between medieval
French and Occitan songs and both earlier poetry and much later
opera. Reflecting on a song's songlike quality-as, for example, the
sound of light in the dawn sky, as breathed by beasts, as sirenlike
in its perils-Kay reimagines the diversity of songs from this
period, which include inset lyrics in medieval French narratives
and the works of Guillaume de Machaut, as works that are as much
desired and imagined as they are actually sung and heard.
Kay understands song in terms of breath, the constellations, the
animal soul, and life itself. Her method also draws inspiration
from opera, especially those that inventively recreate medieval
song, arguing for a perspective on the manuscripts that transmit
medieval song as instances of multimedia, quasi-operatic
performances.
Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera features a
companion website
(cornellpress.manifoldapp.org/projects/medieval-song) hosting
twenty-four audio or video recordings, realized by professional
musicians specializing in early music, of pieces discussed in the
book, together with performance scores, performance reflections,
and translations of all recorded texts. These audiovisual materials
represent an extension in practice of the research aims of the
book-to better understand the sung dimension of medieval song.
Kramářské písně interdisciplinárně Šimečková, Marta
Linguistica Brunensia,
01/2021, Letnik:
69, Številka:
1
Book Review, Journal Article
Recenzirano
Odprti dostop
Kosek, Pavel et al. Do Brna široká cesta: kramářské písně se světskou tematikou: katalog k výstavě: Moravské zemské muzeum, 4. září 2020 - 7. března 2021. Brno: Moravské zemské muzeum, 2020. 128 ...stran. ISBN 978-80-7028-532-9.
This volume is an interpretive analysis of a collection of 335 song texts treated as primary historical sources. The collection highlights the cultural practices that link music with labor in Sukuma ...communities in northwestern Tanzania.
Gabriel Fauré's mélodies offer an inexhaustible variety
of style and expression that have made them the foundation of the
French art song repertoire. During the second half of his long
career, Fauré ...composed all but a handful of his songs within six
carefully integrated cycles. Fauré moved systematically through his
poetic contemporaries, exhausting Baudelaire's Les fleurs du
mal before immersing himself in the Parnassian poets. He would
set nine poems by Armand Silvestre in swift succession (1878-84),
seventeen by Paul Verlaine (1887-94), and eighteen by Charles Van
Lerberghe (1906-14). As an artist deeply engaged with some of the
most important cultural issues of the period, Fauré reimagined his
musical idiom with each new poet and school, and his song cycles
show the same sensitivity to the poetic material. Far more than
Debussy, Ravel, or Poulenc, he crafted his song cycles as
integrated works, reordering poems freely and using narratives, key
schemes, and even leitmotifs to unify the individual songs. The
Fauré Song Cycles explores the peculiar vision behind each
synthesis of music and verse, revealing the astonishing imagination
and insight of Fauré's musical readings. This book offers not only
close readings of Fauré's musical works but an interdisciplinary
study of how he responded to the changing schools and aesthetic
currents of French poetry.
Ce bref récit raconte un moment d’une série d’étapes rituelles durant lesquelles un groupe restreint tente de convoquer l’esprit qui afflige Sele, un jeune des quartiers pauvres de Zanzibar. Par des ...chants, des rythmes et des incantations, l’assistance et quelques guérisseurs tentent de « faire monter » l’esprit, encore inconnu, dans le corps du malade pour lui demander son nom. Mais la séance échoue à moitié. Il faudra alors chanter à nouveau pour que l’esprit « porte » entièrement le corps de son hôte et accepte de dire qui il est.
Lauri Suurpää brings together two rigorous methodologies, Greimassian semiotics and Schenkerian analysis, to provide a unique perspective on the expressive power of Franz Schubert's song cycle. ...Focusing on the final songs, Suurpää deftly combines textual and tonal analysis to reveal death as a symbolic presence if not actual character in the musical narrative. Suurpää demonstrates the incongruities between semantic content and musical representation as it surfaces throughout the final songs. This close reading of the winter songs, coupled with creative applications of theory and a thorough history of the poetic and musical genesis of this work, brings new insights to the study of text-music relationships and the song cycle.
Rhythms of Labour Korczynski, Marek; Pickering, Michael; Robertson, Emma
04/2013
eBook
Whether for weavers at the handloom, labourers at the plough or factory workers on the assembly line, music has often been a key texture in people's working lives. This book is the first to explore ...the rich history of music at work in Britain and charts the journey from the singing cultures of pre-industrial occupations, to the impact and uses of the factory radio, via the silencing effect of industrialisation. The first part of the book discusses how widespread cultures of singing at work were in pre-industrial manual occupations. The second and third parts of the book show how musical silence reigned with industrialisation, until the carefully controlled introduction of Music while You Work in the 1940s. Continuing the analysis to the present day, Rhythms of Labour explains how workers have clung to and reclaimed popular music on the radio in desperate and creative ways.
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