Buch, Englisch, 354 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 500 g
A Study of the Techniques of Composition in Valery's Poetry
Buch, Englisch, 354 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 500 g
ISBN: 978-0-521-16833-5
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
This 1984 book was the first to investigate the full implications of Paul Valéry's interest in the relationship between music and poetry. The book is more of a survey of all that Valéry had to say on music; it examines in detail the influence of such music upon his work as a poet. The structure of the book comprises three distinct phases of argument. In the first part Dr Stimpson details Valéry's contacts with the major developments in twentieth-century French music, and reveals particularly close relationshops with a number of outstanding composers and performers. Part II explores Valéry's theoretical consideration of the links between music and poetry. The third section studies the musical techniques in Valéry's poetry - melody, harmonics, rhythm, musique verbale, and recitative. This will be an important book for serious students of Valéry's poetry and all those interested in the relationship between poetry and music.
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Part I. Valéry's Musical Environment; Part II. Music and Poetry: 1. Music as a language of the emotions; 2. Music as a language of the mind; 3. The theory of composition: Wagner and the universal mind; 4. Valéry and Stravinsky; Part III. Musical Techniques in Valéry's poetry: 5. Composition; 6. Melody; 7. Les Harmoniques; 8. Rhythm; 9. La musique verbale; 10. Recitative; 11. La Dormeuse; Conclusion; Appendix: the composition of La Pythie; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
