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....
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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. Cover -- Baudelaire in Song: 1880-1930 -- Copyright -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: Baudelaire's Musical Contexts: Approaches to Analysing Poetry's Relationship with Music -- What kind of poetry? what kind of music? -- Some slippery definitions: interart analogies -- Deep connections between words and music -- 2: Baudelaire's Assemblage: A New Model for Analysing Poetry-as-song -- SONG-AS-ASSEMBLAGE: COMBINATION AND CONNECTIVITY -- BRIDGING METHODOLOGICAL GAPS: TRANSLATION THEORY, ADAPTATION THEORY, AND WORD/MUSIC THEORY -- WORKING TOWARDS A NEW MODEL FOR SONG ANALYSIS: INCORPORATING PERFORMANCE -- CONNECTIVITY FROM COMBINATION: THE PERMANENCE AND STRENGTH OF BONDS -- EVALUATING SONG -- 3: Repackaging Baudelaire -- SURVEY OF BAUDELAIRE SETTINGS -- REPUBLICATION AND REPACKAGING AS SONG -- PRACTICAL OR AESTHETIC CONCERNS: THE SONG SET -- 4: Maurice Rollinat -- Analysis stage 1: adhesion strength test -- Metre/Prosody -- Metrical Accent -- Note-per-syllable -- Mute e -- Structure -- Form -- Phrasing -- Relationship Between Vocal and Piano Lines -- Enjambement -- Sound Repetition -- Small-scale Repetition -- Large-scale Repetition -- Melodic Doubling -- Original Musical Material -- Semantics -- Performance Options -- Breathing Spaces -- Liaison -- Analysis stage 2: accretion/dilution -- 5: Gustave Charpentier -- Analysis stage 1: adhesion strength test -- Metre/Prosody -- Metrical Accent -- Note-per-syllable -- Mute e -- Structure -- Form -- Phrasing -- Relationship Between Vocal and Piano Lines -- Enjambement -- Sound Repetition -- Small-scale Repetition -- Large-scale Repetition -- Melodic Doubling -- Original Musical Material -- Semantics -- Performance Options -- Breathing Spaces -- Liaison -- Analysis stage 2: accretion/dilution -- 6: Alexander Gretchaninov.
