Songs in Motion: Rhythm and Meter in the German Lied by Yonatan Malin (English)

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 Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Scholars, critics, and performers alike have long been fascinated by the distinctive blend of music and text in the German Lied. Covering works by Fanny Hensel, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, and Hugo Wolf, Songs in Motion synthesizes the most recent developments in song analysis and rhythmic theory. It offers a valuable new method for understanding the extraordinary coalescense of music and text in this most-studied and frequentlyperformed genre of vocal repertory. Aesthetics of simplicity, songfulness, and folk-like directness fostered poetic styles with consistent meters and rhyme schemes in the later eighteenth andearly nineteenth centuries. Author Yonatan Malin explroes the range of rhythmic and expressive possibilities available to composers as they worked within and beyond the original aesthetic dictates of the genre. Malin shows how expressive aspects of the poetic rhythm are intensified and transformed in musical settings, and he interprets rhythmic stratification of the poem, vocal melody, and piano accompaniment as features of the lyric personas conscious awareness and voice. Changes in musicalrhythm over the course of a song are shown to be a significant element in the composers "reading" of the poem. Malins innovative and thorough analyses shed light on stylisticfeatures of individual composers while illuminating more generally the changing nature of lyric subjectivity over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Songs in Motion is a must-read for music theorists, historical musicologists, performers, and students and scholars of German studies. Author Biography Yonatan Malin is Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder. He has published articles and reviews in Music Theory Spectrum and Music Analysis, and in the edited volume Expressive Intersections in Brahms: Essays in Analysis and Meaning (Indiana University Press 2012). He is also editor of Music Theory Online, a journal of the Society for Music Theory. Table of Contents About the Musical Examples and Companion WebsitePart I. Rhythm and Meter in the German Lied1. The Rhythms of Poetry and Song2. Theories of Musical Rhythm and MeterPart II. Songs in Motion3. Hensel: Lyrical Expansions, Elisions, and Rhythmic Flow4. Schubert: Repetition, Motion, and Reflection5. Schumann: Doubling and Reverberation6. Brahms: Metric Cycles and Performative Time7. Wolf: Syncopation and the Rhythms of Speech8. Epilogue: Song Analysis and Musical PleasureBibliographyIndex 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 heaptly 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 of Fantasy 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 Motion lays 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 of Music as Discourse: Semiotic Adventures in Romantic Music Long Description Scholars, critics, and performers alike have long been fascinated by the distinctive blend of music and text in the German Lied. Covering works by Fanny Hensel, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, and Hugo Wolf, Songs in Motion synthesizes the most recent developments in song analysis and rhythmic theory. It offers a valuable new method for understanding the extraordinary coalescense of music and text in this most-studied and frequentlyperformed genre of vocal repertory. Aesthetics of simplicity, songfulness, and folk-like directness fostered poetic styles with consistent meters and rhyme schemes in the later eighteenth andearly nineteenth centuries. Author Yonatan Malin explroes the range of rhythmic and expressive possibilities available to composers as they worked within and beyond the original aesthetic dictates of the genre. Malin shows how expressive aspects of the poetic rhythm are intensified and transformed in musical settings, and he interprets rhythmic stratification of the poem, vocal melody, and piano accompaniment as features of the lyric personas conscious awareness and voice. Changes in musicalrhythm over the course of a song are shown to be a significant element in the composers "reading" of the poem. Malins innovative and thorough analyses shed light on stylisticfeatures of individual composers while illuminating more generally the changing nature of lyric subjectivity over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Songs in Motion is a must-read for music theorists, historical musicologists, performers, and students and scholars of German studies. Review Text "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 heaptly 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 of Fantasy 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 Motion lays 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 of Music as Discourse: Semiotic Adventures in Romantic Music 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 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: "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 of Fantasy 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 Motion lays 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 of Music as Discourse: Semiotic Adventures in Romantic Music Feature Academic/Professional Organizations: Society for Music Theory American Musicological Society New England Conference of Music Theorists (of which Malin is a member) American Brahms SocietyCollege Music SocietyGesellschaft fÜr Musiktheorie Society for Music Analysis UKLyrica Society for Word-Music Relations Canadian University Music SocietyPublications (in order of importance): Music Theory Spectrum Music Analysis 19th-Century Music Journal of Music TheoryJournal of the American Musicological SocietyOther contacts that might further the promotion of the book: Heather Platt, President of the American Brahms Society.Selling point: Combines two areas of research, song analysis and metric theory, and applies them in close readingsSelling point: Provides a simple and effective method for tracing the transformation of poetic meter into musical rhythmSelling point: Includes particularly cogent analyses and unique insights into individual songs of five composers Details ISBN0190213272 Author Yonatan Malin Pages 256 Year 2014 ISBN-10 0190213272 ISBN-13 9780190213275 Format Paperback Subtitle Rhythm and Meter in the German Lied Short Title SONGS IN MOTION Language English Media Book DEWEY 782.421 Birth 1967 Illustrations 63 musical examples, 11 tables Imprint Oxford University Press USA Audience Professional and Scholarly Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Series Oxford Studies In Music Theory Publisher Oxford University Press Inc Publication Date 2014-11-06 UK Release Date 2014-11-06 AU Release Date 2014-11-06 NZ Release Date 2014-11-06 US Release Date 2014-11-06 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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