From vocal poetry to song : towards a theory of song objects / Jean Nicolas De Surmont ; with a foreword by Geoff Stahl ; translated by Anastasija Ropa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De Surmont, Jean-Nicolas, 1968- author.

Contributor:

Stahl, Geoff, writer of foreword.

Ropa, Anastasija, translator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Songs--History and criticism.

Songs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (180 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stuttgart, Germany : Ibidem Verlag, [2017]

Summary:

Although the song is often the subject of monographs, one of its forms remains insufficiently researched: the vocalized song, communicated to the spectator through performance. The study of the song takes one back to the study of vocal practices, from aesthetic objects to forms and to plural styles. To conceive a song means approaching it in its different instances of creation as well as its linguistic diversity. Jean Nicolas De Surmont proposes ways of research and analysis useful to musicians, musicologists, and literary critics alike. He takes up the issue of vocal poetry in addition to examining the theoretic aspects of song objects. Rather than offering an autonomous model of analysis, De Surmont extends the research fields and suggests responses to debates that have involved everyone interested in vocal poetic forms.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Foreword

Note to the reader

Introduction

Theoretical approaches

Conceptual movement ... opera in movimento

Denominative neology

Learned and popular debate on the standards for the song

Use of empirical vocabulary

Chapter 1 Vocal poetry in mountains and dales

Historical approaches

Subject of polysemiotic study

Historical vision

Performance

Theme and style

Creative process

Song in a literary text

Status of text and status of music

Chapter 2 Parallel linearities: Poetry and music

Chapter 3 Componential mutations of the song object

Determining the nature of song object

Variation and hybridity

Folklorisation process: Notes for some concepts

Neology, definition of song vocabulary and examples of song objects' transformation

Internal hybrid song

External hybrid song

External variation in textual components of a signed song

External variation in musical components of a signed song

Polymorphous song

Signed folklorised song

Oralised signed song

Hybrid signed song

Literalised traditional song

Chapter 4 Popular song and its 'popular' epithet

When popular renders the meaning of the song

Description in the Trésor de la langue française

Song of the street, street song

'Popular' song and Romanticism

Discarding the concept of /coming from the people/

Popular music and popular song

Chapter 5 Moral and aesthetic divisions

Distinction between music and text of lyrical poetry

Good song and exacting song

Paradoxical status of the song

Conclusion

Glossary

Bibliography

Index of names

Index of notions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783838270722

383827072X