Derrick Puffett on Music
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Derrick Puffett on Music

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Derrick Puffett on Music

About this book

'I listen to a piece and ask myself what has made the greatest impression on me. What has moved me the most about it, what has excited me the most, what it is I want to write about, what sets my mind working, what sets off my imagination.' Derrick Puffett's description to a group of Cambridge graduate students of his approach to listening and writing about music is clearly evident in the articles reprinted in this collection. For the first time, the book makes available in one place writings previously widely dispersed amongst many journals and symposia. Resonances emerge that cross from essay to essay, with the result that a larger, coherent project is revealed. Insistent on the need of music analysis to be accompanied by a wider historical knowledge, Puffett believed strongly that the methods to be adopted on each occasion must be dictated by the music at hand. His work on Bruckner, Strauss, Webern, Zemlinsky, Delius and Debussy is of enduring importance to the study of music. With a prose style distinguished for its elegance and clarity, Puffett's writings will enhance the understanding and enjoyment of the music that he discusses amongst students and teachers alike.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781138263468
eBook ISBN
9781351569736
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Music

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copy
  5. Content
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Editor’s Introduction
  8. PART I: THE ANALYST SPEAKS
  9. 1 Editorial: In Defence of Formalism
  10. 2 Schenker’s ‘Eroica’
  11. PART II: LINER AND PROGRAMME NOTES
  12. 3 Wagner: Overtures and Orchestral Music
  13. 4 Richard Strauss: Tod und Verklärung and Don Quixote
  14. 5 Richard Strauss: Symphonia Domestica and Parergon
  15. 6 The ‘Tawdriness’ of Salome
  16. PART III: ENGLISH MUSIC
  17. 7 A Nietzschean Libretto: Delius and the Text for A Mass of Life
  18. 8 In the Garden of Fand: Arnold Bax and the ‘Celtic Twilight’
  19. 9 The Fugue from Tippett’s Second String Quartet
  20. 10 Tippett and the Retreat from Mythology
  21. 11 … an Analytical Offering (A. G. 1992) … On Goehr’s Homage to Bach
  22. PART IV: RUSSIAN AND FRENCH MUSIC
  23. 12 A Graphic Analysis of Musorgsky’s ‘Catacombs’
  24. 13 Eight Bars of Stravinsky: The Septet Revisited
  25. 14 Debussy’s Ostinato Machine
  26. PART V: OPERA
  27. 15 Siegfried in the Context of Wagner’s Operatic Writing
  28. 16 Schoeck’s Operas: A Question of Genre
  29. 17 Some Reflections on Literaturoper
  30. 18 Berg and German Opera
  31. 19 Salome: an Introduction
  32. 20 Images of Salome
  33. 21 Strauss’s Scenario for the ‘Dance of the Seven Veils’
  34. 22 Salome as Music Drama
  35. 23 Elektra: Beginnings
  36. 24 The Music of Elektra: Some Preliminary Thoughts
  37. 25 An Introduction to Der Rosenkavalier
  38. PART VI: VIENNA
  39. 26 Transcription and Recomposition: The Strange Case of Zemlinsky’s Maeterlinck Songs
  40. 27 A Notational Peculiarity in Early Webern and its Implications
  41. 28 Gone with the Summer Wind; or, What Webern Lost
  42. 29 ‘Music that Echoes within One’ for a Lifetime: Berg’s Reception of Schoenberg’s Pelleas und Melisande
  43. 30 Berg, Mahler and the Three Orchestral Pieces, Op. 6
  44. PART VII: GERMAN MUSIC
  45. 31 ‘Lass er die Musi, wo sie ist’: Pitch Specificity in Strauss
  46. 32 Bruckner’s Way: The Adagio of the Ninth Symphony
  47. Sources
  48. Index