Book contents
- Elliott Carter’s Late Music
- Music Since 1900
- Elliott Carter’s Late Music
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Examples
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Part I Context
- Part II A Literary Imagination: Text Settings
- 5 Sense and Sensibility
- 6 A Kind of Light
- Part III Instrumental Music
- Book part
- Bibliography
- Index
6 - A Kind of Light
Song Cycles and Other Text Settings
from Part II - A Literary Imagination: Text Settings
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 January 2022
- Elliott Carter’s Late Music
- Music Since 1900
- Elliott Carter’s Late Music
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Examples
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Part I Context
- Part II A Literary Imagination: Text Settings
- 5 Sense and Sensibility
- 6 A Kind of Light
- Part III Instrumental Music
- Book part
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
A study of Elliott Carter’s song cycles and other text settings from the period 1998-2011, with close readings of both poetry and music. Included are individual analytical essays on Tempo e tempi (poetry by Eugenio Montale, Salvatore Quasimodo, and Giuseppe Ungaretti), Of Rewaking (poems by William Carlos Williams), In the Distances of Sleep (poems by Wallace Stevens), Mad Regales (poems by John Ashbery), “La Musique” (poem by Charles Baudelaire), On Conversing with Paradise (texts from Ezra Pound’s Pisan Cantos), Poems of Louis Zukofsky, What Are Years (poems by Marianne Moore), A Sunbeam’s Architecture (poems by e e cummings), Three Explorations (poems by T. S. Eliot), The American Sublime (poems by Wallace Stevens).
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- Elliott Carter's Late Music , pp. 117 - 226Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022