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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Bibliography: p. 320-333
Includes index
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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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