You might also like

More about Parisian Intersections

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 149 loyalty points

Book synopsis

The period from the 1850s to the 1890s in Paris marked a key turning point for poets and composers, as they grappled with the new ways in which poetry and music could intersect. Under the particular conditions of the time and place, both art forms underwent significant developments which challenged the status of each form. In both creative and critical work from this era, poets and composers offered tantalising but problematic insights into «musical» poetry and «poetic» music.

The central issue examined in this book is that of what happens to poetry when it encounters music, especially as song. The author places Baudelaire's famous sonnet «La Mort des amants» at the heart of the analysis, tracing its transposition into song by a succession of both amateur and professional composers, examining works by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Serpette, Rollinat, Debussy and Charpentier, as well as an extraordinary parodic song version by Valade and Verlaine.

A companion website offers recordings of each of the songs analysed in this book.

Book details

Book category Books in German Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft

• Full title: Parisian Intersections
• Author: Helen Abbott
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 230
• EAN: 9781803740102
• ISBN: 1803740108
• ID: 43315177
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Weight: 312 g
• Dimensions: 220 × 145 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 17. April 2023

Trending among others

---

---

---