Still songs
Subtitle: music in and around the poetry of Paul Celan
By: Axel Englund
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9781409422624; 9781409422631
Subjects: History and criticism; Music; Musical settings; National socialism and literature
Description: "Paul Celan, who has long been recognized as the most important poet of the German language after World War II, repeatedly referred to music and song in his poetic oeuvre, and few writers of the post-war era have inspired as large a body of musical settings by contemporary composers. Englund addresses music both as a thematic and structural presence in the poems themselves and as their sounding interlocutor in musical works by Harrison Birtwistle, György Kurtág, Wolfgang Rihm, Peter Ruzicka, and many others" --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: poetry and music in conflict and convergence; title: Play death sweeter; title: Fire in the harp, in her hair; title: Rises and plays; title: Into you, into you I sing; title: We resound; title: Shattered the songs.