Webern and the Lyric Impulse: Songs and Fragments on Poems of Georg Trakl (Studies in Musical Genesis, Structure & Interpretation)
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Anne C. Shreffler (Author)
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This study provides a new view of a composer long considered to be one of the century's most rigorously intellectual creators, Anton Webern. By examining a central pre-twelve-tone work, the Trakl cycle, Op 14, in the context of the Viennese intellectual and artistic climate, Professor Shreffler shows how Webern's responses to Trakl's complex verse enabled him to expand his musical vocabulary. The author's emphasis on Webern's compositional process is of particular
importance: whether because of the anxiety of creating a new musical language, or because of an innate hyper-perfectionism (or both), Webern rejected most of what he composed. A close examination of the manuscript sources - fragments, sketches, and fair copies - of Webern's comparatively neglected
middle-period lieder enables her to shed light on Webern's musical language and his working methods. A focus on the sources also helps to modify the view that his music progressed steadily in the direction of the twelve-tone technique. The works reveal instead a concern with expressing the essence of the text; this lyricism, rather than articulating a substantially different aesthetic from the later works, provides a better understanding of the consummate lyricism of all his music, however
compressed or fragmented its utterance in the `classic' twelve-tone works. 10 pp halftone plates, music examples, tables
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- Contributor: Anne C. Shreffler
- Imprint: Clarendon Press
- ISBN13: 9780198162247
- Number of Pages: 272
- Packaged Dimensions: 163x242x25mm
- Packaged Weight: 591
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Release Date: 1995-01-19
- Series: Studies in Musical Genesis, Structure & Interpretation
- Binding: Hardback
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