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Webern and the lyric impulse : songs and fragments on poems of Georg Trakl

Author: Anne Chatoney Shreffler
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
Series: Studies in musical genesis and structure.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This study provides a new view of a composer long considered to be one of this century's most rigorously intellectual creators, Anton Webern. By examining a central pre-twelve-tone work, the Trakl cycle, Op. 14, in the context of the Viennese intellectual and artistic climate, Professor Shreffler shows how Webern's responses to Trakl's complex verse enabled him to expand his musical vocabulary. Her emphasis on
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Shreffler, Anne Chatoney.
Webern and the lyric impulse.
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994
(OCoLC)651960497
Named Person: Anton Webern; Georg Trakl; Anton von Webern; Georg Trakl; Anton Webern; Georg Trakl
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Anne Chatoney Shreffler
ISBN: 0198162243 9780198162247
OCLC Number: 29564147
Description: xvi, 256 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series Title: Studies in musical genesis and structure.
Responsibility: Anne C. Shreffler.
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This study provides a new view of a composer long considered to be one of this century's most rigorously intellectual creators, Anton Webern. By examining a central pre-twelve-tone work, the Trakl cycle, Op. 14, in the context of the Viennese intellectual and artistic climate, Professor Shreffler shows how Webern's responses to Trakl's complex verse enabled him to expand his musical vocabulary. Her emphasis on Webern's compositional process is of particular importance: whether because of the anxiety of creating a new musical language, or because of an innate hyper-perfectionism (or both), Webern rejected most of what he composed. A close examination of the manuscript sources - fragments, sketches, and fair copies - of Webern's comparatively neglected middle-period lieder enables Shreffler to shed light on Webern's musical language and his working methods.

A focus on the sources also helps to modify the view that his music progressed steadily in the direction of the twelve-tone technique. The works reveal instead a concern with expressing the essence of the text; this lyricism, rather than articulating a substantially different aesthetic from the later works, provides a better understanding of the consummate lyricism of all his music, however compressed or fragmented its utterance in the 'classic' twelve-tone works.

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