10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SONGFULNESS»
Discover the use of
songfulness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
songfulness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Musical Meaning and Human Values
They appear as cases of what Lawrence Kramer has called “songfulness,” as
they have a typical “indefinable” aesthetic quality and “gratifying intimacy.” Miles's
song has it in particularly high measure. Quint's high voice and “melismatic ...
Keith Moore Chapin, Lawrence Kramer, 2009
2
Temporal Process, Repetition, and Voice in Bjork's "Medúlla"
Songfulness in "Show Me Forgiveness" Bjork's performance in "Show Me
Forgiveness" embodies Kramer's concept of "songfulness," in which text forms a
symbiotic relationship with the music through the singing voice.15 The quality of
the ...
3
Musical Meaning: Toward a Critical History
3. Beyond. Words. and. Music. An. Essay. on. Songfulness. In George Eliot's last
novel, Daniel Deronda (1876), the hero prevents a young woman from drowning
herself in the Thames. The next day, telling her story to the mother of a family ...
4
Word and Music Studies Defining the Field: Proceedings of ...
Beyond Words and Music An Essay on Songfulness Lawrence Kramer, New York
, NY Most accounts of the art song are based on the assumption that the music of
a song in some sense expresses or transforms the meaning of the text. Without ...
Walter Bernhart, Steven Paul Scher, Werner Wolf, 1999
5
Brahms's Song Collections: Rethinking a Genre
Pushing this mode of thinking to its conclusion, we arrive at a position not unlike
Lawrence Kramer's idea of "songfulness:" the emptying of semantic meaning
from a text represents one of song's most enduring powers. That the lyrics
become ...
Daniel Brian Stevens, 2008
6
Making Words Sing: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Song
'Songfulness', Kramer insists, 'is a fusion of vocal and musical utterance judged to
be both pleasurable and suitable independent of verbal content. It is the positive
quality of singing-in-itself: just singing.' Add to this his idea of 'loss of meaning', ...
The very techniques by which song becomes meaningful utterance often lead to
at least a partial loss of meaning; songfulness makes meaning extraneous, if not
downright superfluous.26 In such a debate, new ways of looking at the ...
8
The Critical Reception of Beethoven's Compositions by His ...
... lacking pathos, 73; lacking power, 15; lacking purity, 36, 87; lacking simplicity,
18, 30; lacking songfulness, 58; lacking sublimity, 15, 177; lacking substance, 60;
learned, 3 1, 43, 45, 93; minced or forced, 46; monotonous or lacking variety, 94 ...
Wayne M. Senner, Robin Wallace, William Rhea Meredith, 2001
10-12 (vii) Songfulness Another feature of this Gospel is its songfulness. It begins
and ends with songs, and there is rejoicing all the way along. Luke is the first
great Christian hymnologist, not as a creator, but as a preserver of sacred songs.
William Graham Scroggie, 1958
10
Understanding Toscanini: A Social History of American ...
notation and tradition, indifferent to historic and poetic allusions, the all- purpose
formula ensured music making of unsurpassed songfulness and febrile excitation
, even where songfulness or excitation was inappropriate. Rather than evoking ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SONGFULNESS»
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songfulness is used in the context of the following news items.
Music Review: More moderns, but still magnificent Schubert
While there was plenty of challenging harmonic language, its songfulness made it a hit with the audience. Bunch and Ohuchi, husband and wife, opened the ... «Barre Montpelier Times Argus, Jul 15»
Listening Post: Joy Williams, Carter Pann, Kenny Werner
Goldstone & Clemmow, a British husband-and-wife team, give the music a classical grace that allows its songfulness to shine. We should hear these ... «Buffalo.com, Jul 15»
New CDs from Washington Area Cellist Amit Peled and Pianist …
What comes in between is an amazingly diverse mix of wild virtuosity and sublime songfulness. Pandolfi puts one of the most entertaining two and a quarter ... «DC Metro Theater Arts, Jun 15»
Review: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Chichester Cathedral
He attacked the opening allegro with all the passion the composer demanded, but also relished the songfulness of the slow movement and the finale's fairylike ... «Portsmouth News, Jun 15»
'No Stairway to Heaven': A Summer Round Up of Jazz & Classical
Haas blends the energy of McCoy Tyner, the percussive songfulness of Ahmad Jamal and the reflective refractions of Andrew Hill with his own forthright, ... «REVUE, Jun 15»
Ax on Fire in Rockin' Church
Two-and-a-half hours after the evening started, energy, songfulness and indeed rapture all remained high. Sealing his pact with the very happy audience, Avital ... «The Boston Musical Intelligencer, Mar 15»
Unusual Musical Ruminations in Concord
... him soaking up the sea breezes on Martha's Vineyard or reclining under an arbor in Napa Valley, given the general songfulness and repose of its music. «The Boston Musical Intelligencer, Dec 14»
Vogt, LPO, Nézet-Séguin, Royal Festival Hall
Nézet-Séguin deepened the mystery by simply drawing us in to the hushed dynamics and thereafter songfulness vied with turbulence in equal measure. «The Arts Desk, Nov 14»
Mutter's lustrous performance highlight of PSO gala concert
Bruch's exciting finale provided plenty of opportunity to enjoy Mutter's bravura style, which was perfectly matched by energy and songfulness of the orchestra. «Tribune-Review, Sep 14»
Prom 50: Weilerstein, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Bělohlávek
A pity, because her exchanges with individual players, not least the excellent leader Josef Spacek Jr, were most sympathetic and in repose her songfulness and ... «The Arts Desk, Aug 14»
