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Title

Analytical strategies and musical interpretation : essays on nineteenth- and twentieth-century music / edited by Craig Ayrey and Mark Everist.

Publication

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.

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Additional Authors

• Ayrey, Craig.
• Everist, Mark.

Description

xii, 321 pages : music; 26 cm

Summary

• Analytical strategies and musical interpretation is devoted to music analysis as an interpretative activity. Interpretation is often considered only in theory, or as a philosophical problem, but this book attempts to demonstrate and reflect on the interpretative results of analysis.
• Two associated types of practice are emphasised: 'translation', the transformation of one type of experience or art object into the musical work, the artistic attempt to persuade us that the new product is equal to or more valid than, its origin; and 'rhetoric', the attempt to persuade us, through structure, to accept the signifying power of the work. The unifying theme of the essays is the interpretative transformation of concepts, ideas and forms that constitutes the heart of the compositional process of nineteenth- and twentieth-century music.
• The repertoire covered ranges from Schumann through Wagner, Mahler, Zemlinsky, Debussy, Schoenberg, Berg, Webern and Stravinsky to Elliott Carter and Harrison Birtwistle.

Subjects

• Music > Interpretation (Phrasing, dynamics, etc.)
• Music theory > History > 19th century
• Musical analysis
• Music theory > History > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Introduction: different trains / Craig Ayrey -- 2. Stravinsky's Symphonies: accident or design? / Stephen Walsh -- 3. Transcription and recomposition: the strange case of Zemlinsky's Maeterlinck songs / Derrick Puffett -- 4. Symphony and symphonic scenes: issues of structure and context in Schumann's 'Rhenish' Symphony / Michael Musgrave -- 5. The poetry of Debussy's En blanc et noir / Jonathan Dunsby -- 6. Poems as non-verbal text: Elliott Carter's Concerto for Orchestra and Saint-John Perse's Winds / Jonathan W. Bernard -- 7. Birtwistle's secret theatres / Jonathan Cross -- 8. The narrative impulse in the second Nachtmusik from Mahler's Seventh Symphony / Kofi Agawu -- 9. 'Von heute auf morgen': Schoenberg and the New Criticism / Alan Street -- 10. Misleading voices: contrasts and continuities in Stravinsky studies / Anthony Pople -- 11. Immortal voices, mortal forms / Carolyn Abbate -- 12. 'So who are you'? Webern's Op. 3 No. 1 / Dai Griffiths.

ISBN

0521462495 (hc)

LCCN

95017461

OCLC

ocm32469380

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries