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Words and Music (Paperback, New)
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Words and Music (Paperback, New)
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Loot Price R539
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The chronological range covered by the individual essays is more
than two hundred years, from the Classical Enlightenment to the
early twenty-first century. Some of the studies encompassed by this
volume undertake the analysis of one composer's settings of a
particular poet's work - albeit with rather more critical rigour.
Others trace the ways in which a literary text is modified and
adapted before and as it develops as one of the principal
components of an opera. Several share new insights into the complex
relationships of individual works with the literary and musical
traditions out of which they emerge (or which they transform and
renew) - or set such works in the political contexts of their
genesis or reception, often using a key historical moment, a
turning-point or a 'snapshot', as the starting-point for a
wide-ranging investigation. In some cases the words and the music
are those of the same 'composer', the relationship here shedding
light on the process of composition itself. Literary works are
often scrutinized for the light they shed on a musician's creative
processes, but the importance of music to writers - as audiences,
but also as amateur or even semi-professional practitioners - is no
less important as an investigative standpoint.
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