Le 28 juin 2017
de 11h30 à 12h00
Le Patio (université de Strasbourg)
22 rue René Descartes, 67000 Strasbourg
salle 3206
Séance - Readings of Franz Liszt
Pré-acte / Acte
Auteur : Małgorzata Gamrat
A song cycle is one of the best known examples of the aforementioned interdisciplinarity. In artistic laboratory, composers worked with two independent means – word and sound – and created a new one which was a combination of the two. The possibility of extending a single song opens up a new way for composers – now, they can create their own artistic means allowing to make a cycle from independent pieces. They used a variety of methods, for example: the same musical motifs in different songs, the same formal constructions, tonality, texture, imitation of other instruments, etc. On poetical level, they used already existing texts, sometimes a poetical cycle (i.g. Winterreise) or composed their own cycles using separate poems (i.g. Schwanengesang). In that case a cycle has to be coherent in terms of its themes (plot) or topics, motifs, the construction of lyrical “I,” narrativity, dramaturgical logic, expressions (similar or opposed). The 19th-century song cycles can be more coherent on poetical or musical (or both) levels. My methodological proposal is to combine and connect different musicological approaches; one for poetical level of song cycles, and the other for musical cycles. This is the first step of my analysis. The next, the most important, is to observe an interaction between music and poetry; how composer work into two media and makes new one.
