Twentieth- And Twenty-First-Century Song Cycles Analytical Pathways Toward Performance | Music

Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Song Cycles: Analytical Pathways Toward Performance presents analyses of fourteen song cycles composed after the turn of the twentieth century with a focus on offering ways into the musical and poetic structure of each cycle to performers scholars and students alike. Ranging from familiar works of twentieth-century music by composers such as Schoenberg Britten Poulenc and Shostakovich to lesser-known works by Van Wyk Sviridov Wheeler and Sánchez this collection of essays captures the diversity of the song cycle repertoire in contemporary classical music. The contributors bring their own analytical perspectives and methods considering musical structures the composers' selection of texts how poetic narratives are expressed and historical context. Informed by music history music theory and performance Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Song Cycles offers an essential guide into the contemporary art-music song cycle for performers scholars students and anyone seeking to understand this unique genre. |Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Song Cycles Analytical Pathways Toward Performance | Music