Jacqueline Waeber

Speaking German Musically: Poetic Recitation in Central Europe, 1760-1820

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Shows how poetic recitation and the interweaving of music and poetry contributed to the advent of a German identity in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Europe.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 506
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 885g
• ISBN-13: 9781837652143
• ISBN-10: 1837652147
• Artikelnr.: 72220866

Autorenporträt

JACQUELINE WAEBER is Associate Professor of Music at Duke University, North Carolina.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction PART I 1. Re-evaluating German from Lessing to Klopstock 2.
'Germany's greatest bard' 3. On Wohlklang PART II 4. Italian poetic
improvisation and the German tradition of occasional poetry 5. Pygmalion:
Before and after 6. German versus French melodrama 7. Goethe's Proserpina
PART III 8. From poetic recitation to Lied: The declamatorium as a missing
link 9. Zumsteeg, Schubart, and the ballad: Poetic recitation and the
demands of Sangbarkeit 10. J. F. Reichardt's Deklamationsstücke PART IV
11. Theorising declamation c. 1800 12. Unearthing Sprachmelodie 13.
Epilogue: Reconciling Ton and Rhythmus Bibliography Index