scholarly journals Dylan Thomas’s “In Country Sleep”: His Paradoxical Sensibility

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. p12
Author(s):  
S. Bharadwaj
Keyword(s):  
Early Phase ◽  
Art Song ◽  
Art Songs ◽  
Dylan Thomas

In “In Country Sleep”, Dylan Thomas offers the Yeatsian paradoxical sensibility, the process of magnanimous impersonal art as salvation to the tumultuous Auden who condescends to the mortal levelling charges of conspiracy, war mongering, tilting and toppling against him as his performance as an artist of Yeatsian pagan altruistic art songs has undone his success, popularity and appeal among the contemporary poets. Auden, despite the loss of his grandeur, continues with the Eliotian metaphysical process of aesthetic amoral art song that has made him great in the early phase. The time-conscious political poets of the thirties, while heading towards the romantic ideals of their early phase, mounts up their rage against Thomas for his deviation in the later art songs from his early poems of pity. The young Movement poets commend Auden’s early poem for the parable of pure poetry and aesthetic success and defends his avenging move against Thomas. The introductory poem implies that it is Thomas’s introspective process of individuation and integration, coherence and co-existence, his paradoxical sensibility, his tragi-comic vision of Grecian altruistic art song that guards his sober and benign functioning as an ardent emulator of the pagan altruistic tradition of Hardy, Yeats, Houseman and Blake, as a poet of reconciliation, harmonization and cosmopolitan culture analogous to his functioning in the early poem 18 Poems.

scholarly journals Dylan Thomas’s “Over Sir John’s Hill”: The Motif of His Art Songs

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
S Bharadwaj
Keyword(s):  
Art Song ◽  
Art Songs ◽  
Main Thrust ◽  
Tragic Vision ◽  
Dylan Thomas

In the last dramatic art song “Over Sir John’s Hill,” Dylan Thomas reiterates that the motif of his art songs has been the Yeatsian introspective process of individuation and integration, transfiguration and transformation, the mortal vision of Grecian altruistic art song as seen in his early poem 18 Poems. His Yeatsian process of tragic happiness, his warm impersonal art, his paradoxical sensibility that makes him an artist of success and popularity in contrast to W.H. Auden’s Eliotian motif of metaphysical process of self-annihilation and immortal art, his aesthetic amoral impersonal art, his tragic vision of art song which deprives him of his grandeur and influence. However, the main thrust is extending to the dismembered and discontented Auden the very same process of regeneration that Thomas has offered to the victims of Auden’s art song while ignoring everything about … allegations of tilting, toppling and conspiracy against him. The song also testifies to his Yeatsian cosmopolitan culture maintaining his equanimity and magnanimity when he confronts an atmosphere of envy and ill-will, and hatred and violence.

scholarly journals Dylan Thomas’s “In the White Giant’s Thigh”:A Wild Love of Art Song

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 91
Author(s):  
S. Bharadwaj
Keyword(s):  
Art Song ◽  
Art Songs ◽  
The Political ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Alternative Process ◽  
Literary Reputation ◽  
Human Reality ◽  
Common Man ◽  
Dylan Thomas

In the poem “In the White Giant’s Thigh,” Dylan Thomas projects the contemporary poets’ wild passion for Eliotian amoral art song and their suffering and the contradistinction of his own occasional love of Yeatsian Grecian altruistic art song and his delight. The poem is at bottom optimistic as it offers the metaphysical and the metempirical wild lovers an alternative process of art song and also carries salvation to transcend their sorrowful failure. It is Thomas’s faith in the Yeatsian process of transfiguration and transformation, the possibility of deliverance from the bondage of experience and ignorance that assures him of success and appeal in his art songs, that Auden repudiates in his metaphysical process of transgression and transmigration and his immortal vision of aesthetic amoral art song. The poem implies that Auden, as a result of his continual ignorance of the human reality of life and death, his stoic love of metaphysical art and reality, loses his grandeur and literary reputation and stoops to the level of a common man susceptible to hatred and indignation, violence and vengeance like the victims of his art songs, the political, the war and the Movement poets who remain equally ignorant of the metaphysical process and the reality of breath and death.

Sidney's Verse Adaptations to Two Sixteenth-Century Italian Art Songs

1970 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 237-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank J . Fabry
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Art Song ◽  
Art Songs ◽  
Sir Philip Sidney ◽  
National Anthem ◽  
Italian Art ◽  
Sister Arts

It is well known that Sir Philip Sidney modeled eight of his thirty-two 'Certaine Sonnets’ upon existing ‘tunes,’ as he called them. To date, only one, relatively unimportant, musical model is known—the current Dutch National Anthem, to which Sidney wrote CS 23, ‘Who hath his fancy pleased.’ The result of this association of the sister arts is a simple, metrically precise, stylistically dull lyric whose numbers are directly proportioned to the regularity of its musical model. Of his other models, one, ‘The Smokes of Melancholy,’ appears to have been an English consort song; the others (five Italian, one Spanish) are probably variant forms of the villanella, a type of sixteenth-century art-song written for three or four voices and distinguished by its rhythmic lightness, its homophonic (chordal) structure, and its mildly satirical or openly vulgar text.

Mastering the Aria through Song: Daron Hagen’s Amelia, “Apostrophe to the Stars,” and Selected Hagen Art Songs

2021 ◽  
Vol 78 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-54
Author(s):  
Kelci Kosin
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Art Song ◽  
Art Songs ◽  
Vocal Repertoire ◽  
Student Interest ◽  
Voice Teachers ◽  
Open Mind

Contemporary arias in English are too often excluded from student repertoire because they are perceived as being overly complex atonal works that are too challenging for the student. In order to counter this misconception, voice teachers should foster curiosity within students to seek repertoire with an open mind. Exploring music of living composers such as Daron Hagen can ignite student interest in contemporary art song and opera literature that expands the realms of what is thought to be traditional or appropriate vocal repertoire for students seeking a professional singing career.

A Singer-Composer Learns His Craft

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean E. Snyder
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Art Song ◽  
Art Songs ◽  
American Art ◽  
American Art Song ◽  
Instrumental Works ◽  
Choral Arrangements ◽  
Sacred Songs ◽  
Schola Cantorum

This chapter examines Harry T. Burleigh's work as a composer during the period 1896–1913. Burleigh's 200-plus vocal and instrumental works brought him national and international renown in the first half of the twentieth century. Burleigh's songs reflected his thorough knowledge of the prevailing forms and musical idioms of the European and American art song, both as a singer and as a composer. All his songs were written for the recital or concert stage, and they often set the same lyrics. Two of Burleigh's compositional output are choral arrangements of spirituals—“Deep River” and “Dig My Grave”—that were written for Kurt Schindler's Schola Cantorum. Also, it was not unusual for Burleigh himself to appear in concert or recital with other song composers. This chapter considers Burleigh's compositions published from 1896 to 1903 and from 1904 to 1913, including art songs, plantation songs, piano sketches, and sacred songs.

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