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Webern and the Lyric Impulse - Songs and Fragments on Poems of Georg Trakl (Hardcover)
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Webern and the Lyric Impulse - Songs and Fragments on Poems of Georg Trakl (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Musical Genesis, Structure & Interpretation
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This study provides a new view of a composer long considered to be
one of the century's most rigorously intellectual creators, Anton
Webern. By examining a central pre-twelve-tone work, the Trakl
cycle, Op 14, in the context of the Viennese intellectual and
artistic climate, Professor Shreffler shows how Webern's responses
to Trakl's complex verse enabled him to expand his musical
vocabulary. The author's emphasis on Webern's compositional process
is of particular importance: whether because of the anxiety of
creating a new musical language, or because of an innate
hyper-perfectionism (or both), Webern rejected most of what he
composed. A close examination of the manuscript sources -
fragments, sketches, and fair copies - of Webern's comparatively
neglected middle-period lieder enables her to shed light on
Webern's musical language and his working methods. A focus on the
sources also helps to modify the view that his music progressed
steadily in the direction of the twelve-tone technique. The works
reveal instead a concern with expressing the essence of the text;
this lyricism, rather than articulating a substantially different
aesthetic from the later works, provides a better understanding of
the consummate lyricism of all his music, however compressed or
fragmented its utterance in the `classic' twelve-tone works.
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