Abstract:<italic>Musical Wordsworth</italic> presents an original understanding of Wordsworthian harmony by examining an organised but dynamic sense of musicality that shapes his poetic theory and practice. Th...<italic>Musical Wordsworth</italic> presents an original understanding of Wordsworthian harmony by examining an organised but dynamic sense of musicality that shapes his poetic theory and practice. This book is the first study to draw on music psychology and aesthetics to interpret the function and mechanism of Wordsworth’s aural structure and soundscape. Wordsworth’s musicality is examined in the light of four main concepts – the theory of musical meaning and emotion inaugurated by music psychologist and philosopher Leonard B. Meyer; the theory of expectation of the music psychology and cognition expert David Huron; the theory of rhythmanalysis of the philosopher and sociologist Henri Lefebvre; and the theory of audible silence of the experimental composer and music theorist John Cage. Engaging with scholarship from the fields of literature and music, this book defines Wordsworth’s poetry and the imagination through musical conceptions, and establishes various modes and forms of poetic listening as experiences of musical performance and appreciation. Each chapter explores a pair of musical abstractions – Lyricism and Musicality; Breath and Harmony; Repetition and Resonance; Expectation and Surprise; Rhythm and Dynamics; Rest and Silence.Read More
Publication Year: 2023
Publication Date: 2023-04-13
Language: en
Type: book
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