Paul Valéry and music : a study of the techniques of composition in Valéry's poetry
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Paul Valéry and music : a study of the techniques of composition in Valéry's poetry
Cambridge University Press, 1984
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Note
Bibliography: p. 320-333
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This 1984 book was the first to investigate the full implications of Paul Valery's interest in the relationship between music and poetry. The book is more of a survey of all that Valery had to say on music; it examines in detail the influence of such music upon his work as a poet. The structure of the book comprises three distinct phases of argument. In the first part Dr Stimpson details Valery's contacts with the major developments in twentieth-century French music, and reveals particularly close relationshops with a number of outstanding composers and performers. Part II explores Valery's theoretical consideration of the links between music and poetry. The third section studies the musical techniques in Valery's poetry - melody, harmonics, rhythm, musique verbale, and recitative. This will be an important book for serious students of Valery's poetry and all those interested in the relationship between poetry and music.
Table of Contents
- Part I. Valery's Musical Environment
- Part II. Music and Poetry: 1. Music as a language of the emotions
- 2. Music as a language of the mind
- 3. The theory of composition: Wagner and the universal mind
- 4. Valery and Stravinsky
- Part III. Musical Techniques in Valery's poetry: 5. Composition
- 6. Melody
- 7. Les Harmoniques
- 8. Rhythm
- 9. La musique verbale
- 10. Recitative
- 11. La Dormeuse
- Conclusion
- Appendix: the composition of La Pythie
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
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