American poetry influence
Byron Adams
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composer song cycles
Coon Song
cultural nationalism
Darest Thou
Dark Mother
David Metzer
Death Carol
Dona Nobis Pacem
Dooryard Bloom
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Franz Schreker
George Crumb
Gray Brown Bird
Hear America Singing
Human Suffering
Johannes Schlaf
John M. Picker
Kathy Rugoff
Kim H. Kowalke
Krenek's Jonny Spielt Auf
literary adaptation in music
modernist aesthetics
musicology
Paul Hindemith
Philip Coleman-Hull
Racial Masquerade
Sea Drift
Sea Symphony
Solo Baritone
Spoken Songs
twentieth century poetry settings
Walter GrNzweig
Werner GrNzweig
Whitman Poems
Whitman Texts
Whitman's Civil War
Whitman's Poetry
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780815331544
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 20 Apr 2000
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Walt Whitman's poetry, especially his Civil War poetry, attracted settings by a wide variety of modern composers in both English- and German-speaking countries. The essays in this volume trace the transformation of Whitman's nineteenth-century texts into vehicles for confronting twentieth-century problems-aesthetic, social, and political. The contributors pay careful attention to music and poetry alike in examining how the Whitman settings become exemplary means of dealing with both the tragic and utopian faces of modernism. The book is accompanied by a recording by Joan Heller and Thomas Stumpf of complete Whitman cycles composed by Kurt Weill, George Crumb, and Lawrence Kramer, and the first recording of four Whitman songs composed in the 1920s by Marc Blitzstein.
Lawrence Kramer
