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« 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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