Helen Abbott

Baudelaire in Song

1880-1930

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Produktbeschreibung

This book looks at a key 50-year period (1880-1930) in France and Europe, to see how and why Baudelaire's poetry has been set to music in classical music, how composers have completely manipulated the texts, which poems they have chosen and why.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 165mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 482g
• ISBN-13: 9780198794691
• ISBN-10: 019879469X
• Artikelnr.: 48956483

Autorenporträt

Helen Abbott is Professor of Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham, and specializes in nineteenth-century French poetry and music, with particular emphasis on voice and performance. She leads an international team of researchers on the Baudelaire Song Project researching all the song settings of Baudelaire's poetry, from the nineteenth century to the present day, including classical and popular music settings, and songs in translation as well as the original French. Major publications include Parisian Intersections: Baudelaire's Legacy to Composers (Peter Lang, 2012) and Between Baudelaire and Mallarmé: Voice, Conversation and Music (Ashgate, 2009).

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Baudelaire's musical contexts: Approaches to analysing poetry's
relationship with music
* 2: Baudelaire's assemblage: A new model for analysing poetry-as-song
* 3: Repackaging Baudelaire
* 4: Maurice Rollinat
* 5: Gustave Charpentier
* 6: Alexander Gretchaninov
* 7: Louis Vierne
* 8: Alban Berg
* Conclusions
* Appendix I: Shared critical language used in adaptation, translation,
and word/music theory
* Bibliography
* Discography