The Structure of What is Beyond the Words: Musico-Poetic Analysis of the Fragment from Scenes from a Novel, op. 19 by György Kurtág

Dina Lenstner

doi:10.1556/smus.43.2002.3-4.9

Studia Musicologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae

Volume/Issue:: Volume 43: Issue 3-4

The Structure of What is Beyond the Words: Musico-Poetic Analysis of the Fragment from Scenes from a Novel, op. 19 by György Kurtág

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Dina Lenstner

Dina Lenstner Columbus, USA

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Pages:: 323–332

Online Publication Date:: 19 Jul 2005

Publication Date:: 01 Jun 2002

Article Category:: Research Article

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1556/smus.43.2002.3-4.9

Keywords:: György Kurtág; musico-poetic analysis; Rimma Dalos; music-text relationship

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This paper focuses on one fragment from Kurtág's Scenes from a Novel, a vocal cycle for soprano and isntrumental ensemble set to poems by Rimma Dalos. The structuralist analytical method of Iurii Lotman, Russia's foremost semiotician, is used to examine Dalos's text. It considers the phonological, prosodi, graphic, lexical, and grammatical levls of poetic structure. The author examines both vertucal and horizontal dimensions of the musical structure, borrowing the “wedge” idea from Davis Lewin. The incorporate these approaches, this fragment is considered as an independent musical entity, an independent poetic entity, and finalyy as a synthetic musico-poetic symbiosis.

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