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Essays on the synthesis of the musical and literary arts in German Romanticism.
The interrelationship between music and literature reached its zenith during the Romantic era, and nowhere was this relationship more pronounced than in Germany. Many representatives of literary and philosophical German Romanticism held music to be the highest and most expressive, quintessentially Romantic art form, able to convey what cannot be expressed in words: the ineffable and metaphysical. The influence was reciprocal, with literature providing a rich source of inspiration for German composers of both instrumental and vocal music, giving rise to a wealth of new forms and styles. The essays in this volume are selected from papers presented at an international, interdisciplinary conference held at University College Dublin in December 2000, and include contributions from Germanists, musicologists, comparatists, and performance artists. This interdisciplinarity makes for informed and complementary approaches and arguments. The essays cover not only the "Romantic" nineteenth century (commencing with the early Romanticism of the Jena circle), but also look ahead to the legacy, reception, and continuation of German Romanticism in the modern and postmodern ages. Alongside new readings of familiar and established writers and composers such as Goethe, Hoffmann, Wagner, and Schubert, a case is made for other figures such as Wackenroder, Novalis, Schlegel, Schumann, Brahms, Liszt, and Berlioz, as well as less-known figures such as Ritter, Schneider, and Termen, and for a reconsideration of questions of categorization. The essays will appeal to readers with a wide variety of academic, musical, and literary interests.
Siobhán Donovan is a Lecturer in the Department of German at University College Dublin. Robin Elliott is Jean A. Chalmers Chair in Canadian Music at the University of Toronto.
The interrelationship between music and literature reached its zenith during the Romantic era, and nowhere was this relationship more pronounced than in Germany. Many representatives of literary and philosophical German Romanticism held music to be the highest and most expressive, quintessentially Romantic art form, able to convey what cannot be expressed in words: the ineffable and metaphysical. The influence was reciprocal, with literature providing a rich source of inspiration for German composers of both instrumental and vocal music, giving rise to a wealth of new forms and styles. The essays in this volume are selected from papers presented at an international, interdisciplinary conference held at University College Dublin in December 2000, and include contributions from Germanists, musicologists, comparatists, and performance artists. This interdisciplinarity makes for informed and complementary approaches and arguments. The essays cover not only the "Romantic" nineteenth century (commencing with the early Romanticism of the Jena circle), but also look ahead to the legacy, reception, and continuation of German Romanticism in the modern and postmodern ages. Alongside new readings of familiar and established writers and composers such as Goethe, Hoffmann, Wagner, and Schubert, a case is made for other figures such as Wackenroder, Novalis, Schlegel, Schumann, Brahms, Liszt, and Berlioz, as well as less-known figures such as Ritter, Schneider, and Termen, and for a reconsideration of questions of categorization. The essays will appeal to readers with a wide variety of academic, musical, and literary interests.
Siobhán Donovan is a Lecturer in the Department of German at University College Dublin. Robin Elliott is Jean A. Chalmers Chair in Canadian Music at the University of Toronto.
Price: $130.00
Pages: 266
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Publication Date:
21 May 2004
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781571132581
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, Literature: history and criticism, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, Art music, orchestral and formal music
[...] the conviction of music's ability to convey meaning, rather than to imitate or represent an external phenomenon as was generally accepted during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, lies at the heart of German Romantic aesthetics. This theme forms the central subject of discourse in Music and Literature in German Romanticism.... This book makes an important contribution presenting current approaches from diverse perspectives related to a unified theme.
Iniquitous Innocence: The Ambiguity of Music in the Phantasien über die Kunst (1799) - Richard Littlejohns
The Cosmic-Symphonic: Novalis, Music, and Universal Discourse -
"Das Hören ist ein Sehen von und durch innen": Johann Wilhelm Ritter and the Aesthetics of Music - Thomas Straessle
Music and Non-Verbal Reason in E. T. A. Hoffmann - Jeanne Riou
Perceptions of Goethe and Schubert - Lorraine Byrne
Goethe's Egmont, Beethoven's Egmont - David Hill
A Tale of Two Fausts: An Examination of Reciprocal Influence in the Responses of Liszt and Wagner to Goethe's FaustFaust - David Larkin
Musical Gypsies and Anti-Classical Aesthetics: The Romantic Reception of Goethe's Mignon Character in Brentano's Die mehrenen Wehmüller und ungarische GeschichterDie mehrenen Wehmüller und ungarische Geschichter - Stefanie Bach
Stages of Imagination in Music and Literature: E. T. A. Hoffmann and Hector Berlioz - Andrea Huebener
The Voice from the Hereafter: E. T. A. Hoffmann's Ideal of Sound and Its Realization in Early Twentieth-Century Electronic MusicElectronic Music - Werner Keil
"My song the midnight raven has outwing'd": Schubert's "Der Wanderer," D. 649 - James Parsons
The Notion of Personae in Brahm's "Bitteres zu sagen denkst du": op. 32, no. 7: A literary key to musical performance? - Natasha Loges
Robert Schneider's Schlafes Bruder -- a Neo-Romantic Musikernovelle? - Juergen Barkhoff
The Cosmic-Symphonic: Novalis, Music, and Universal Discourse -
"Das Hören ist ein Sehen von und durch innen": Johann Wilhelm Ritter and the Aesthetics of Music - Thomas Straessle
Music and Non-Verbal Reason in E. T. A. Hoffmann - Jeanne Riou
Perceptions of Goethe and Schubert - Lorraine Byrne
Goethe's Egmont, Beethoven's Egmont - David Hill
A Tale of Two Fausts: An Examination of Reciprocal Influence in the Responses of Liszt and Wagner to Goethe's FaustFaust - David Larkin
Musical Gypsies and Anti-Classical Aesthetics: The Romantic Reception of Goethe's Mignon Character in Brentano's Die mehrenen Wehmüller und ungarische GeschichterDie mehrenen Wehmüller und ungarische Geschichter - Stefanie Bach
Stages of Imagination in Music and Literature: E. T. A. Hoffmann and Hector Berlioz - Andrea Huebener
The Voice from the Hereafter: E. T. A. Hoffmann's Ideal of Sound and Its Realization in Early Twentieth-Century Electronic MusicElectronic Music - Werner Keil
"My song the midnight raven has outwing'd": Schubert's "Der Wanderer," D. 649 - James Parsons
The Notion of Personae in Brahm's "Bitteres zu sagen denkst du": op. 32, no. 7: A literary key to musical performance? - Natasha Loges
Robert Schneider's Schlafes Bruder -- a Neo-Romantic Musikernovelle? - Juergen Barkhoff