Composing Symbolism's Musicality of Language in Fin-de-siècle France
Description:
In this dissertation, I explore the musical prosody of the literary symbolists and the influence of this prosody on fin-de-siècle French music. Contrary to previous categorizations of music as symbolist based on a characteristic "sound," I argue that symbolist aesthetics demonstrably influenced musical construction and reception. My scholarship reveals that symbolist musical works across genres share an approach to composition rooted in the symbolist concept of musicality of language, a concept…
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Date:
August 2016
Creator:
Varvir Coe, Megan Elizabeth, 1982-
Partner:
UNT Libraries