Uniting Music and Poetry in Twentieth-Century Spain

Nelson R. Orringer

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN: 9781978775664
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: European Literary Criticism

In Uniting Music and Poetry in Twentieth-Century Spain, Nelson R. Orringer uses both literary and musical analysis to study sung poems in twentieth-century Spain. In nine chapters, each focusing on an individual sung poem, song cycle, or various poems set by the same composer, Orringer enriches and deepens interpretations of the art-songs by comparing the poet's vision to the composer's. In examining composers such as Falla, Turina, Mompou, Toldrà, Rodrigo, Montsalvatge, and Rodolfo Halffter, Orringer shows that Spanish art-song is an exceptional product of Spain's Silver Age and reveals a new way to understand and appreciate poems set to music in twentieth-century Spain.

Table of contents

• Contents
• List of Figures
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Falla’s Four Youthful Experiments in Song
• 2. Glorifying Cordoba
• 3. Joaquín Turina’s Sevillanismo in Four Songs
• 4. Frederic Mompou’s Art of Dreaming Music in Combat del somni [Dream Combat]
• 5. The Virginal Voice in Eduard Toldrà’s Six Songs of Castilian Poetry
• 6. The Absent Dulcinea
• 7. Creative Landscapes of Salamanca in Unamuno and Joaquín Rodrigo
• 8. Montsalvatge’s Cinco canciones negras [Five Black Songs]
• 9. Rodolfo Halffter’s Canciones sobre Marinero en tierra [Songs on Sailor on Shore]
• Conclusion
• References
• Index
• About the Author