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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Declamation"”.
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Towards a declamatory performance in Schubert Lieder
This study reconsiders declamation in Schubert lieder performance in light of emerging historical evidence. Johann Michael Vogl’s reputedly declamatory approach has arguably been captured in surviving Diabelli editions that document his rhetorically motivated alterations and ornamentations. …
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Jurists and Orators: Rhetorical and Legal Perspectives on the Roman Family
… oratory, in particular Quintilian’s <em>Minor Declamations</em>, side by side with Roman legal texts in order to ascertain connections between rhetorical training and juristic writing. Specifically, I will focus on Roman family law, as many of Quintilian’s declamations are devoted to this topic …
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English diction for singers : a self-instructional course of study utilizing the international phonetic alphabet with self-test materials
… linkage, poetical and musicalstress, and declamation;Chapter XIthe preparation of complete song texts, applyingall the knowledge and skills learned in the course.Each chapter has accompanying exercises which require the student to use information contained in that particular chapter; …
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Schubert s dramatic Lieder to Poems by Goethe: Technical and interpretive decision-making from a lyric baritone s perspective
… such as narrators, personae, recitatives and declamation, which pose interpretive challenges for the lyric baritone (Hirsch 1993. 2). The Lieder also consists of wide vocal ranges, sections with high tessitura, wide interval leaps and long phrases, each presenting notable technical challenges …
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Poetry Into Song: Word-Music Relations in Settings of Goethe's Faust by Wagner and his Contemporaries (1832–1840)
… to what extent Goethe's attitudes towards the declamation of the text were reflected in and reflective of compositional practices of the time and to assess the influence of the poet on Wagner's formative endeavours in music and song composers of the intervening period between Schubert and …
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Time's inexorability: a performance study of Gerald Finzi's Earth and air and rain
… 20th century. His careful attention to textual declamation and Hardy's shifting tone of voice result in songs that not only exemplify a style distinctively British, but also a style that bears out the deeper philosophical foundations of Hardy's poetry. His careful grouping of the ten poems of …
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Code, performance and ideology : the dialogue of reception as dramatic praxis in Voltaire's tragedies
… impose his ideas of decor, costume, staging and declamation. Chapter III defines ideology as the system or systems of belief which underlie and inform the texts. The analysis is organized around three broad areas of social organization: government, religion and the family. Special attention is …
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Mensura Incognita: Queer Kinship, Camp Aesthetics, and Juvenal's Ninth Satire
… literary genres such as epic, elegy, and declamation; and literary motifs such as <em>servitium amoris</em>, <em>militia amoris</em>, and <em>exclusus amator</em>, among others. A Conclusion recaps and extends some of the major contentions of the study and indicates directions for further …
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Reading for the Republic: The Minor Declamations and the Culture of the Past
… of controversiae from this time is the Minor Declamations, a text of unknown authorship and date, which comprises 145 of an original 388 controversiae. For all that the Minor Declamations never names the settings of its conflicts in time and space (a fictive realm notionally far removed from …
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Comus and the seventeenth century masque.
… sculpture, architecture, painting; comedy, declamation, dialogue; picturesque dance and movement; music in the form of solo melodies, of recitative to which much of the libretto was spoken, and of incidental accompaniment to the action. Nearly all of these ephemeral concomitants of the …
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The Spiritual Pedagogy of the Cloud-author
… *usus*’—originally a training model for public declamation—which the *Cloud*-author reconceives as a subtly but completely transformed framework for teaching contemplation, reformulated in Middle English as ‘disposicioun, techyng, and profe’. This chapter argues that this nuanced reworking …
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Singing Petrarch in the Cinquecento: Embodied Reading and the Italian Madrigal
… sonnet, “Tutto ’l dì piango.” Using the rhythmic declamation and emphasis of assonance and rhetorical figures found in the musical settings, figures are created that display what this demonstrates about the reading experience: where readers felt accents, pauses, and tension in enjambments; where …
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Jules Massenet's Musical Prosody Focusing on His Eight Song Cycles And A Collection, Expressions Lyriques: A Lecture Recital, Together with Recitals of Selected Works of W. A. Mozart, F. Schubert, C. Debussy, R. Strauss, D. Argento, V. Bellini, J. Marx, W. Walton, C. Gounod, A. Scarlatti, G. Fauré, J. Rodrigo, H. Wolf, and Others
Jules Massenet's mélodies feature a distinct vocal treatment regarding musical prosody through his eight song cycles, including Poëme d'Avril, Poëme Pastoral, Poëme du Souvenir, Poëme d'Amour, Poëme d'Hiver, Poëme d'un Soir, and Quelques Chansons Mauves, and a collection, Expressions Lyriques. …