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Goethe's Kennst du das Land: Eight Musical Settings, 1795-1888

This thesis studies the problem of combining a poem with music in nineteenth-century Lieder so that the music enhances the poetry rather than detracting from it. Eight settings of Goethe's poem "Kennst du das Land," from his novel Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahr, are compared.
Settings by Johann Friedrich Reichardt, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Liszt, Tchaikowsky, and Wolf are analyzed, after initial treatment of the literary aspects of the poem.
The degree of musico-poetic synthesis varies in these settings, and it becomes evident that total fusion of poetry and music is not possible. However, the settings by Schumann and Wolf achieve strong balance of word and tone.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc663331
Date08 1900
CreatorsMcCrory, Jennifer A.
ContributorsBrothers, Lester Dwayne, 1945-, Adkins, Cecil
PublisherNorth Texas State University
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formatv, 85 leaves : music, Text
Coverage1795-1888
RightsPublic, McCrory, Jennifer A., Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights

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