Somewhat strange : a study of the relationships between text and music in English song, 1588-1789
- Hutchings, Geoffrey Justin Mackay
- Authors: Hutchings, Geoffrey Justin Mackay
- Date: 1984
- Subjects: Songs, English -- 16th century -- HIstory and criticism Songs, English -- 17th century -- HIstory and criticism
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
- Identifier: vital:2670 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006978
- Description: This study is concerned with the ways in which linguistic texts combine with music to form song, essentially an art of relationship. It argues that the relationship has never been a very stable one outside folk song, and traces the development of the relationship in English song from the appearance of the first English madrigals in 1588 to the death of G F Handel in 1759. The different sorts of relationship during this period are discussed in detail, with particular attention being paid to the sort of lyric poetry that is most suitable for musical setting. The conclusion is reached that, in the art of setting a poem to music, the late Elizabethan masters, Thomas Campion and John Dowlland, were supreme in the period under discussion. After them, the aevelopment of a new system of tonality and of denser textures of accompaniment resulted in music's assumption of a more and more Dominant role in the relationship to the neglect and detriment of poetic text.
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- Date Issued: 1984
- Authors: Hutchings, Geoffrey Justin Mackay
- Date: 1984
- Subjects: Songs, English -- 16th century -- HIstory and criticism Songs, English -- 17th century -- HIstory and criticism
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
- Identifier: vital:2670 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006978
- Description: This study is concerned with the ways in which linguistic texts combine with music to form song, essentially an art of relationship. It argues that the relationship has never been a very stable one outside folk song, and traces the development of the relationship in English song from the appearance of the first English madrigals in 1588 to the death of G F Handel in 1759. The different sorts of relationship during this period are discussed in detail, with particular attention being paid to the sort of lyric poetry that is most suitable for musical setting. The conclusion is reached that, in the art of setting a poem to music, the late Elizabethan masters, Thomas Campion and John Dowlland, were supreme in the period under discussion. After them, the aevelopment of a new system of tonality and of denser textures of accompaniment resulted in music's assumption of a more and more Dominant role in the relationship to the neglect and detriment of poetic text.
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- Date Issued: 1984
A study of piano pedagogy : its history, theory, psychology and practical application
- Authors: Keeves, June Kelk
- Date: 1984
- Subjects: Piano -- Instruction and study Piano -- Methods
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MMus
- Identifier: vital:2662 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004571
- Description: A discourse concerning the importance followed by a study of piano pedagogy; of piano teaching method, its history and general aspects of piano technique; a fully comprehensive method of piano teaching from the very earliest stages to the advanced; a discussion of various important selected concepts incorporated in the method which require particular emphasis; the application of certain concepts in the various style periods, such as dynamics, tempo, tempo rubato, pedalling, ornamentation, to the teaching of a piece; a discussion of the psychology of piano teaching and practising. All of these various branches of study are imperative in the training of the prospective piano teacher. (Preface)
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- Date Issued: 1984
- Authors: Keeves, June Kelk
- Date: 1984
- Subjects: Piano -- Instruction and study Piano -- Methods
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MMus
- Identifier: vital:2662 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004571
- Description: A discourse concerning the importance followed by a study of piano pedagogy; of piano teaching method, its history and general aspects of piano technique; a fully comprehensive method of piano teaching from the very earliest stages to the advanced; a discussion of various important selected concepts incorporated in the method which require particular emphasis; the application of certain concepts in the various style periods, such as dynamics, tempo, tempo rubato, pedalling, ornamentation, to the teaching of a piece; a discussion of the psychology of piano teaching and practising. All of these various branches of study are imperative in the training of the prospective piano teacher. (Preface)
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- Date Issued: 1984
study of the personality of Franz Liszt with special reference to the contradictions in his nature
- Authors: Ensor-Smith, Beryl Eileen
- Date: 1984
- Subjects: Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MMus
- Identifier: vital:2691 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013323
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- Date Issued: 1984
- Authors: Ensor-Smith, Beryl Eileen
- Date: 1984
- Subjects: Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MMus
- Identifier: vital:2691 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013323
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- Date Issued: 1984
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