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Taylor & Francis Goethe and Zelter Musical Dialogues
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Taylor & Francis Schuberts Goethe Settings
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Yale University Press Schubert
Book SynopsisAn insightful biography of the great composer, revealing Schubert’s complex and fascinating private life alongside his musical geniusTrade Review“A fascinating and invaluable addition to this burgeoning literature. . . . No one alive is better equipped to slay the various Schubert myths—and her biography is undoubtedly the most scrupulous and best-informed so far.”—Ivan Hewett, The Telegraph“[A] remarkably informative book, revealing musical and historical insights that have long been hidden.”—Laura Tunbridge, Times Literary Supplement“This is fascinating material. . . . Illuminating observations, which are numerous, are embedded in thornier material.”—Henrietta Bredin, Country Life“Such insights, such close reading and empathetic understanding of the motives of the figures involved make this an invaluable addition to Schubert biography.”—David Threasher, Gramophone“With her unique combination of archival zeal, literary brilliance, meticulous knowledge of scholarly sources, and incisive musical acumen, Lorraine Byrne Bodley has produced a masterpiece: a fascinating and nuanced biography that does full justice to this complex, towering figure.”—Michael Beckerman, Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Music, New York University“This is a biography for the ages. Its scholarship is oceanic, and its profoundly empathetic engagement with Schubert as man and musician is steeped in the felt life and thought of early nineteenth-century Vienna. A heroic, serenely-considered and compelling achievement.”—Harry White, professor of music, University College Dublin“Lorraine Byrne Bodley is a gifted storyteller who guides the reader through Schubert’s life with deep psychological insight. This illuminating book connects the biography and the musical works of the troubled wayfarer, creating an intriguing link between the author’s life and the protagonist of his famous Winterreise.”—Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl, director of the Schubert Research Centre, Austrian Academy of Sciences, professor of music, University of Salzburg“This book is an event: Lorraine Byrne Bodley slays any number of calcified myths, delves into European sources never explored before in this depth, and loops back and forth between works and biography in a way that illumines both. All Schubert-lovers will gain much from this revelatory magnum opus.”—Susan Youens, Emeritus Professor of Music, University of Notre Dame“This biography, written with empathy palpable on every page, draws a multifaceted portrait of both the man and the composer Schubert—a fascinating picture in which life and works are related to each other in many ways.”—Thomas Seedorf, president, International Schubert Society, NSA
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Taylor & Francis The Unknown Schubert
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Peter Lang International Academic Publishers Goethe: Musical Poet, Musical Catalyst
Book Synopsis«It was a great pleasure both to host and to participate in an international conference that brought together musicologists, composers, performers, and literary artists in stimulating and thought-provoking discourse. The collaboration of our colleagues from Queen’s University, Belfast, was particularly welcome and appreciated; they, together with distinguished international Goethians, contributed much to what was a unique 36 hours of intellectual and artistic dialogue.» Professor Gerard Gillen, Chair of Music, National University of Ireland Maynooth & Titular Organist of Dublin’s Pro-Cathedral «Goethe’s influence on the musical world is far reaching. While it seems impossible to grasp the full extent of his legacy, a sense of optimism was in the air at the Maynooth conference where we were entertained by a series of highly stimulating papers and concerts, exploring some fascinating details of Goethe’s world and his unique contributions to music. It was indeed a rare opportunity to have had such a wonderful mix of scholarly exchanges on a literary giant, Goethe, who continues to enrich our lives through his creative output.» Dr Yo Tomita, Reader in Music, Queen’s University Belfast «I have long been conscious of the modernity of much of Goethe’s writing and aware of the very direct message it can deliver to a 21st century man or woman. In particular the characters of both Mignon and the Harper in Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre speak to us of an all-too-familiar sense of fractured identity. It was therefore with especial pleasure that I undertook the musical setting of Goethe’s poems associated with these two vivid characters for performance at the conference. What a wonderful opportunity was afforded me to present a first performance of Goethe settings before an audience that included so many distinguished scholars of the great German writer!» Seóirse Bodley, Composer and Emeritus Professor of Music, University College Dublin «Musical performance is a fundamental part of human existence, yet years of learning and preparation lie behind it. The interpretation of music requires decisions – conscious and/or intuitive – about the meaning of musical features as well as knowledge of the historical context in which the music was written. The unique interaction of theory and practice in this conference offered scholars and performers an opportunity to unravel the complexities of performance together, and to bring to light aspects of learning and playing. Each of the authors in this volume is a leading expert in the field, and the performers, who illustrated their lectures with recitals, were of considerable experience and renown. All of these factors ensure that the essays in this volume are vital, cogent, and musically challenging.» John O’Conor, Pianist and Director of the Royal Irish Academy of Music «Goethe was interested in, and acutely aware of, the place of music in human experience generally – and of its particular role in modern culture. Moreover, his own literary work - especially the poetry and ‘Faust’ – inspired some of the major composers of the European tradition to produce some of their finest works. What is it about Goethe’s texts that invites a transformation into music? Perhaps it is his extraordinary combination of emotional immediacy and intense reflectivity. To that combination, and to the perennially fascinating question of what happens in the interplay between words and music, this volume of essays bears abundant witness.» Martin Swales, Emeritus Professor of German, University College LondonTable of ContentsContributors - Editorial Note and Acknowledgements - List of Abbreviations - List of Figures - List of Illustrations - List of Musical Quotations - List of Tables - Message from Dr Gottfried Haas, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany - MichealO’Siadhail, ‘Hopscotch’ and ‘Caprice’ - Susan Youens – Preface- Goethe’s Musical Aesthetics- Otto Biba - Goethe’s Presence in the Vienna Music Scene of his Era - Lorraine Byrne - Goethe and Zelter: An Exchange of Musical Letters - Goethe and Beethoven - Claus Canisius - Göthe and Beethowen: Men of Genius between Distance and Affinity - Amanda Glauert - ‘Ichdenkedein’: Beethoven’s Retelling of Goethe’s Poetry - Moray McGowan - Fidelio and Faust in the German ‘Wende’ of 1989/90 - Goethe as Musical Catalyst - Jan Smaczny - Goethe and the Czechs - Briony Williams - Bettina von Arnim, Goethe and the Boundaries of Creativity - Gareth Cox - Blumengruß und Blumenglöckchen: Goethe’s Influence on Anton Webern - Musical and Philosophical Reflectionsof Wilhelm MeistersLehrjahre - Nicholas Boyle - Schumann’s Requiem für Mignon and the Concept of Music as Literature - Julian Horton - Mignon’s Exequies and Aesthetic Reflections of the Liturgy in Music - Adolf Nowak - SeóirseBodley - Mignon und der Harfner – Appendices - Appendix 1 | Conference Programme - Appendix 2 | Goethe and the Guitar -Index
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Peter Lang International Academic Publishers Three Congregational Masses
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Peter Lang International Academic Publishers A Hazardous Melody of Being: Seóirse Bodley’s
Book SynopsisSedirse Bodley is one of the best-known senior figures of contemporary music in Ireland. This book seeks to examine his engagement with the poetry of Micheal O'Siadhail and the making of these song cycles. It assesses the joint contribution to Irish art song and seeks to understand its roots in and departure from European tradition. This apograph is the first publication of Bodley's O'Siadhail song cycles and is the first book to explore the composer's lyrical modernity from a number of perspectives. Lorraine Byrne Bodley's insightful introduction describes in detail the development and essence of Bodley's musical thinking, the European influences he absorbed which linger in these cycles, and the importance of his work as a composer of Irish art song. She asks an array of questions: Does song play a new role in twentieth-century music or was this the age, as many have insisted, that bears witness to the «death of song»? How does contemporary Irish art song inscribe individual concerns and mirror the influence of dominant social trends through its music and its texts? She demonstrates that the answers to such questions illuminate the context in which these cycles were created, and how they were valued and viewed. Through a blend of close analysis of Bodley's songs and wide-ranging engagement with both poetry and music, this book sheds new light on Bodley's integral part in fashioning Irish art song. It analyses the way Bodley's song has been harnessed both to legitimate and to challenge national art song. And it identifies elements of Bodley's musical style which are shaped by European tradition. Beyond such musico-poetic analysis, Lorraine Byrne Bodley's reading of the threefold roles of continuity, gradual change, and revolution opens up a «braided history» of Irish art song, where song is not an aesthetic given but a means to understanding the changing patterns of life. She argues convincingly that an understanding of the way in which Irish society has perceived song in recent centuries is available through a consideration of song as social document, and in her appraisal of Bodley's O'Siadhail settings she considers the importance of these song cycles as a reflection of Ireland's rich cultural history.
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Peter Lang International Academic Publishers A Community of the Imagination: Seoirse Bodley's
Book SynopsisIn this musical collection, Lorraine Byrne Bodley reflects upon composer Seóirse Bodley's musical settings of Goethe's poetry by examining the cultual and poetic contexts key to their construction.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements - Biographies - Editorial Note - Crossing Thresholds: On SeóirseBodley’s Goethe Settings - SeóirseBodley, - Mignon und der Harfner,- Song cycle for Soprano, - Baritone and piano- SeóirseBodley, - Gretchen,- Song cycle for Soprano, Mezzo and piano- SeóirseBodley, ‘- WandrersNachtlied’ (ÜberallenGipfeln) - Appendix 1: Mignon und der Harfner, Texts and Translations - Appendix 2: Gretchen, Texts and Translations
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