Description: Songs in Motion by Yonatan Malin This book explores rhythm and meter in the German Lied, including songs by Hensel, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, and Wolf. It provides new methodologies for analysis and close readings of individual songs. It illustrates the transformation of poetic meter into musical rhythm and situates songs within larger aesthetic and historical narratives. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Qualities of motion and emotion in song come from poetic images, melody, harmony, and voice leading, but they also come from rhythm and metre-the flow and articulation of words and music in time. This book explores rhythm and metre in the nineteenth-century German Lied, including songs for voice and piano by Fanny Hensel née Mendelssohn, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, and Hugo Wolf.The Lied, as a genre, is characterized especially by the fusion of poetry and music. Poetic metre itself has expressive qualities, and rhythmic variations contribute further to the modes of signification. These features often carry over into songs, even as they are set in the more strictly determined periodicities of musical metre. A new method of declamatory-schema analysis is presented to illustrate common possibilities for setting trimeter, tetrameter, and pentameter lines. Degrees of rhythmic regularity and irregularity are also considered.There has been a wealth of new work on metric theory and analysis in the past thirty years; here this research is reviewed and applied in song analysis. Topics include the nature of metric entrainment (drawing on music psychology), metric dissonance, hypermeter, and phrase rhythm.Whereas narrative accounts of the nineteenth-century Lied typically begin with Schubert, here forms of expansion and elision in songs by Hensel provide a point of departure. Repetition links up directly with motion in songs by Schubert, including his famous "Gretchen am Spinnrade." The doubling and reverberation of vocal melody creates a form of interiorized resonance in Schumanns songs. Brahms and Wolf are typically understood as polar opposites in the later nineteenth century; here the differences are clarified along with deeper affinities. Songs by both Brahms and Wolf may be understood as musical performances of poetic readings, and in this regard they both belong to a late period of cultural history. Author Biography Yonatan Malin is a music theorist with special interests in song analysis, embodied meaning, romanticism, and theories of rhythm and meter. He has published articles and reviews in Music Theory Spectrum and Music Analysis, and has presented papers at regional and national meetings of the Society for Music Theory. Professor Malin enjoys teaching music history and theory at Wesleyan University. Table of Contents INTRODUCTION; EPILOGUE; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX Review The book represents musicology in the best and fullest sense, as Malin makes real points regarding the historical evolution of the German Lied through his analyses of the rhythms of text, melody, and accompaniment. Moreover, Malins analytic readings go beyond the details of how these songs work to show why they work the way they do...With Songs in Motion Malin shares both his understanding and his pleasures of these Lieder; as he aptly puts it: Thi? * in a nutshel?is what song analysis is about (207). Indeed, it is.Music Theory Online * Long Description Qualities of motion and emotion in song come from poetic images, melody, harmony, and voice leading, but they also come from rhythm and metre-the flow and articulation of words and music in time. This book explores rhythm and metre in the nineteenth-century German Lied, including songs for voice and piano by Fanny Hensel n Review Quote "The book represents musicology in the best and fullest sense, as Malin makes real points regarding the historical evolution of the German Lied through his analyses of the rhythms of text, melody, and accompaniment. Moreover, Malins analytic readings go beyond the details ofhowthese songs work to showwhythey work the way they do...WithSongs in MotionMalin shares both his understanding and his pleasures of these Lieder; as he aptly puts it: "This--in a nutshell--is what song analysis is about (207). Indeed, it is." --Music Theory Online "Malins book is an important contribution not only to song analysis, but also to rhythmic/metric theory. Music theorists, musicologists, and performers will enjoy his penetrating, sophisticated, and innovative analyses of poetry and music, and of their interaction as they move together through time."-Harald Krebs, author ofFantasy Pieces: Metrical Dissonance in the Music of Robert Schumann "At once a study of the ontology of the Lied and a comparative exploration of musical style,Songs in Motionlays bare the polyrhythmic foundation of song and demonstrates its workings in a variety of nineteenth-century compositions. Yonatan Malin draws on the strongest music-theoretical resources to engage listeners, performers, and thinkers in equal measure. This book significantly raises the stakes in theory-based analysis of song."-Kofi Agawu, author ofMusic as Discourse: Semiotic Adventures in Romantic Music Details ISBN0195340051 Author Yonatan Malin Short Title SONGS IN MOTION Language English ISBN-10 0195340051 ISBN-13 9780195340051 Media Book Format Hardcover Series Oxford Studies in Music Theory Year 2010 Birth 1967 Publication Date 2010-06-17 Subtitle Rhythm and Meter in the German Lied UK Release Date 2010-06-17 Imprint Oxford University Press Inc Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2010-06-17 NZ Release Date 2010-06-17 US Release Date 2010-06-17 Pages 256 Publisher Oxford University Press Inc Alternative 9780190213275 DEWEY 782.42168092 Illustrations 63 musical examples, 11 tables Audience Undergraduate We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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