Research Catalog

Title

From vocal poetry to song : towards a theory of song objects / Jean-Nicolas De Surmont ; with a foreword by Geoff Stahl ; translated by Anastasija Ropa.

Author

De Surmont, Jean-Nicolas, 1968-

Publication

• Stuttgart : ibidem-Verlag, [2017]
• ©2017

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Additional Authors

Ropa, Anastasija

Description

178 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"Although the song is often the subject of monographs, one of its forms remains insufficiently researched: the vocalised song, communicated to the spectator through performance. The study of the song takes one back to the study of vocal practices, from aesthetic objects to forms and to plural styles. To conceive a song means approaching it in its different instances of creation as well as its linguistic diversity.00Jean Nicolas De Surmont proposes ways of research and analysis useful to musicians, musicologists, and literary critics alike. In his book he takes up the issue of vocal poetry in addition to examining the theoretic aspects of song objects. Rather than offering an autonomous model of analysis, De Surmont extends the research fields and suggests responses to debates that have involved everyone interested in vocal poetic forms."--

Uniform Title

Vers une théorie des objets-chansons. English

Alternative Title

Vers une théorie des objets-chansons.

Subjects

• Songs
• Popular music > Philosophy and aesthetics
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Songs > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-168) and index.

Language (note)

• Translation of: Vers une théorie des objects-chansons.

Contents

Foreword. Note to the reader. Introduction : Theoretical approaches -- Conceptual movement: opera in movimento -- Denominative neology -- Learned and popular debate on the standards for the song -- Use of empirical vocabulary. Chapter 1 Vocal poetry in mountains and dales : HIstorical approaches -- Subject of polysemiotic study -- Historical vision -- Performance -- Theme and style -- Creative process -- Song in a literary text -- Status of text and status of music. Chapter 2 Parallel linearities: poetry and music. Chapter 3 Componential mutations of the song object : Determining the nature of song object -- Variation and hybridity -- Folklorisation process: notes for some concepts -- Neology, definition of song vocabulary and examples of song objects' transformation -- Internal hybrid song -- External hybrid song -- External variation in textual components of a signed song: external variation in musical components of a signed song -- Polymorphous song -- Signed folklorised song -- Oralised signed song -- Hybrid signed song -- Literalised traditional song. Chapter 4 Popular song and its "popular" epithet : When popular renders the meaning of the song -- Description in the Trésor de la langue française -- Song of the street, street song -- "Popular" song and Romanticism - Discarding the concept of /coming from the people/ -- Popular music and popular song. Chapter 5 Moral and aesthetic divisions : Distinction between music and text of lyrical poetry -- Good song and exacting song -- Paradoxical status of the song. Conclusion. GLossary. Bibliography. Index of names. Index of notions.

Call Number

JMD 18-52

ISBN

• 9783838210728
• 3838210727
• 9783838210926
• 3838210921

OCLC

987628545

Author

De Surmont, Jean-Nicolas, 1968- author.

Title

From vocal poetry to song : towards a theory of song objects / Jean-Nicolas De Surmont ; with a foreword by Geoff Stahl ; translated by Anastasija Ropa.

Publisher

Stuttgart : ibidem-Verlag, [2017]

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-168) and index.

Language

Translation of: Vers une théorie des objects-chansons.

Added Author

Ropa, Anastasija, translator.

Research Call Number

JMD 18-52