Title: The Children of Orpheus: How Composers Receive Ancient Texts
Abstract:Since the Renaissance, classical subjects have exerted an ever-present impact on musical composition. Composers have responded in diverse, revealing ways to the challenge of setting classical texts. S...Since the Renaissance, classical subjects have exerted an ever-present impact on musical composition. Composers have responded in diverse, revealing ways to the challenge of setting classical texts. Some have harnessed their prestige as a platform for social or political commentary; others have regarded classical literary works as structural archetypes to be preserved by music; still others have re-interpreted or even negated those texts’ original meanings. Combining musical and classical scholarship, this outreach panel consists of four papers specifically chosen because they discuss the musical scores themselves as well as the texts they set. This dual study of music in collaboration with text is a potentially unique contribution to the offerings of the APA.Read More
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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