Musical Meaning and Interpretation: Death in Winterreise : Musico-Poetic Associations in Schubert's Song Cycle book MOBI, TXT, PDF
9780253011008 0253011000 Lauri Suurp brings together two rigorous methodologies, Greimassian semiotics and Schenkerian analysis, to provide a unique perspective on the expressive power of Franz Schubert's song cycle. Focusing on the final songs, Suurp deftly combines textual and tonal analysis to reveal death as a symbolic presence if not actual character in the musical narrative. Suurp demonstrates the incongruities between semantic content and musical representation as it surfaces throughout the final songs. This close reading of the winter songs, coupled with creative applications of theory and a thorough history of the poetic and musical genesis of this work, brings new insights to the study of text-music relationships and the song cycle., Lauri Suurpaa brings together two rigorous methodologies, Greimassian semiotics and Schenkerian analysis, to provide a unique perspective on the expressive power of Franz Schubert's song cycle. Focusing on the final songs, Suurpaa deftly combines textual and tonal analysis to reveal death as a symbolic presence if not actual character in the musical narrative. Suurpaa demonstrates the incongruities between semantic content and musical representation as it surfaces throughout the final songs. This close reading of the winter songs, coupled with creative applications of theory and a thorough history of the poetic and musical genesis of this work, brings new insights to the study of text-music relationships and the song cycle., Lauri Suurpää brings together two rigorous methodologies, Greimassiansemiotics and Schenkerian analysis, to provide a unique perspective on the expressive power of FranzSchubert's song cycle. Focusing on the final songs, Suurpää deftly combines textual andtonal analysis to reveal death as a symbolic presence if not actual character in the musicalnarrative. Suurpää demonstrates the incongruities between semantic content and musicalrepresentation as it surfaces throughout the final songs. This close reading of the winter songs,coupled with creative applications of theory and a thorough history of the poetic and musicalgenesis of this work, brings new insights to the study of text-music relationships and the songcycle., Lauri Suurp�� brings together two rigorous methodologies, Greimassian semiotics and Schenkerian analysis, to provide a unique perspective on the expressive power of Franz Schubert's song cycle. Focusing on the final songs, Suurp�� deftly combines textual and tonal analysis to reveal death as a symbolic presence if not actual character in the musical narrative. Suurp�� demonstrates the incongruities between semantic content and musical representation as it surfaces throughout the final songs. This close reading of the winter songs, coupled with creative applications of theory and a thorough history of the poetic and musical genesis of this work, brings new insights to the study of text-music relationships and the song cycle.
9780253011008 0253011000 Lauri Suurp brings together two rigorous methodologies, Greimassian semiotics and Schenkerian analysis, to provide a unique perspective on the expressive power of Franz Schubert's song cycle. Focusing on the final songs, Suurp deftly combines textual and tonal analysis to reveal death as a symbolic presence if not actual character in the musical narrative. Suurp demonstrates the incongruities between semantic content and musical representation as it surfaces throughout the final songs. This close reading of the winter songs, coupled with creative applications of theory and a thorough history of the poetic and musical genesis of this work, brings new insights to the study of text-music relationships and the song cycle., Lauri Suurpaa brings together two rigorous methodologies, Greimassian semiotics and Schenkerian analysis, to provide a unique perspective on the expressive power of Franz Schubert's song cycle. Focusing on the final songs, Suurpaa deftly combines textual and tonal analysis to reveal death as a symbolic presence if not actual character in the musical narrative. Suurpaa demonstrates the incongruities between semantic content and musical representation as it surfaces throughout the final songs. This close reading of the winter songs, coupled with creative applications of theory and a thorough history of the poetic and musical genesis of this work, brings new insights to the study of text-music relationships and the song cycle., Lauri Suurpää brings together two rigorous methodologies, Greimassiansemiotics and Schenkerian analysis, to provide a unique perspective on the expressive power of FranzSchubert's song cycle. Focusing on the final songs, Suurpää deftly combines textual andtonal analysis to reveal death as a symbolic presence if not actual character in the musicalnarrative. Suurpää demonstrates the incongruities between semantic content and musicalrepresentation as it surfaces throughout the final songs. This close reading of the winter songs,coupled with creative applications of theory and a thorough history of the poetic and musicalgenesis of this work, brings new insights to the study of text-music relationships and the songcycle., Lauri Suurp�� brings together two rigorous methodologies, Greimassian semiotics and Schenkerian analysis, to provide a unique perspective on the expressive power of Franz Schubert's song cycle. Focusing on the final songs, Suurp�� deftly combines textual and tonal analysis to reveal death as a symbolic presence if not actual character in the musical narrative. Suurp�� demonstrates the incongruities between semantic content and musical representation as it surfaces throughout the final songs. This close reading of the winter songs, coupled with creative applications of theory and a thorough history of the poetic and musical genesis of this work, brings new insights to the study of text-music relationships and the song cycle.