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Webern and the Lyric Impulse

Webern and the Lyric Impulse

Songs and Fragments on Poems of Georg Trakl

by Anne C. Shreffler
Hardback
Publication Date: 19/01/1995

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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.
ISBN:
9780198162247
9780198162247
Category:
Theory of music & musicology
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
19-01-1995
Language:
English
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
272
Dimensions (mm):
242x163x25mm
Weight:
0.59kg

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