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Back to the publications homepage « Words for Music perhaps » : le « new art » de Yeats “Words for Music perhaps”: Yeats’s “new art”*** *Jacqueline Genet* Partitions réunies et présentées par Jacqueline Genet Scores collected and presented by Jacqueline Genet Édition bilingue / A bilingual édition Collection : Irlande 220 pages, format 20x27, 2010 ISBN : 978-2-7574-0142-2
Contents: « Words for Music Perhaps » : Yeats’s « New Art » Yeats’s diction and his interest in music The composers Farr and Dolmetsch at the origin of a "new art" Other composers Edmund Dulac, George Antheil, Walter Morse Rummel,John F. Larchet, Arthur Duff,Arthur Darley, Edward Elgar,Walter J. Turner, Harry Partch, Their sources of inspiration and musical instruments Sources Folklore songs, The musical pattern of the Noh,Some borrowings in the later plays The instruments The characteristics of this « new art » and the bardic tradition Speech-song or parlando o cantando Music and ritual : the art of the ancient bards The search for the Unity of Culture Scores Poems « The Song of Wandering Aengus » : W.B.Yeats & Florence Farr « The Song of the Old Mother » : W.B.Yeats & Florence Farr « The Host of the Air » : A.H. Bullen & Florence Farr « I have drunk ale from the Country of the Young »: Florence Farr « The Happy Townland » : Florence Farr Drama Music composed and interpreted by Florence Farr The Countess Cathleen : « Impetuous Heart » The Land of Heart’s Desire : « The Wind Blows out of the Gates of the Day » The King’s Threshold : « The Four Rivers » On Baile’s Strand : « The Fool’s Song » « Song of theWomen » « The Fool’s Song II » Deirdre : « Musicians’Song I » « Musicians’Song II » « Musicians’Song III » (also interpreted by Sarah Allgood)
Other composers George Antheil : Fighting the Waves John F. Larchet : The Land of Heart’s Desire : « The Wind Blows out of the Gates of the Day » Sophocles’ King Œdipus Harry Partch : Sophocles’King Œdipus Arthur Duff : The King of the Great Clock Tower : « The Wicked Hawthorn Tree » Arthur Darley : The Shadowy Waters Edward Elgar : Diarmuid and Grania
Borrowings from folk-songs Cathleen Ni Houlihan : « I will go cry » (Florence Farr) The Pot of Broth, « Pastin Finn » The Unicorn from the Stars : « The Airy Bachelor »,« Johnnie Gibbons », « The Lion Shall Lose His Strength » The Hour-Glass
The major Noh plays Edmund Dulac : At the Hawk’s Well Walter Morse Rummel : The Dreaming of the Bones John F. Larchet : The Dreaming of the Bones Bibliography Origins of the Scores Index
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