Musical-Literary Illumination of Schumann’s Piano Cycle Focused on ‘Romantic irony`

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 137-157
Author(s):  
Sung-hee Chu
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Irony ◽  
Piano Cycle

Byron and Romantic Concepts of Inspiration

Romanticism ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 180-189
Author(s):  
Rolf Lessenich
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Period ◽  
Romantic Irony ◽  
Social Distinction ◽  
Ideal World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Ideal

Though treated marginally in histories of philosophy and criticism, Byron was deeply involved in Romantic-Period controversies. In that post-Enlightenment, science-orientated age, the Platonic-Romantic concept of inspiration as divine afflatus linking the prophet-priest-poet with the ideal world beyond was no longer tenable without an admixture of doubt that turned religion into myth. As a seriously-minded Romantic sceptic in the Pyrrhonian tradition and commuter between the genres of sensibility and satire, Byron often refers to the prophet-poet concept, acting it out in pre-Decadent poses of inspiration, yet undercutting it with his typical Romantic Irony. In contrast to Goethe, who insisted on an inspired poet's sanity, he saw inspiration both as a social distinction and as a pathological norm deviation. The more imaginative and poetical the creation, the more insane is the poet's mind; the more realistic and prosaic, the more compos it is, though an active poet is never quite sane in the sense of Coleridge's ‘depression’, meaning his non-visitation by his ‘shaping spirit of imagination’.

English Romantic Irony. Anne K. Mellor.

1981 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 192-196
Author(s):  
Susan Wolfson
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Irony

scholarly journals Reconstructing Realism in Post-Postmodern Narrative: Dave Eggers’s A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 115-126
Author(s):  
Jesús Bolaño Quintero
Keyword(s):  
David Foster Wallace ◽  
Turn Of The Millennium ◽  
Romantic Irony ◽  
Linguistic Relativism ◽  
The Creation

By analysing Dave Eggers’s autofictional work A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, this article attempts to reveal the role of this author in the post-postmodern narrative of the turn of the millennium. Following in the wake of David Foster Wallace, Eggers’s solution to overcome the problems created by postmodernism is a kind of writing based on honesty. Through a rebirth of the author, the objective of Eggers’s New Sincerity is the democratization of narrative in order to create a sensibility network aimed at ending the solipsism brought about by postmodern linguistic relativism. However, this new sensibility is reminiscent of pre-postmodern fundamentalism. The use of meta-metafiction based on the use of neo-Romantic irony enables Eggers to create an escape valve that allows for the creation of a metamodern oscillation—as described by Tim Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker.

scholarly journals The Enduring Value of Children’s Music by D. B. Kabalevsky as a Subject of Mastering by Young Pianists

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 94-104
Author(s):  
Marina V. Smirnova ◽  
Anna A. Shtrom
Keyword(s):  
Social Activity ◽  
The State ◽  
Pedagogical Practice ◽  
Creative Activity ◽  
Children's Music ◽  
Educational Role ◽  
Piano Cycle ◽  
Shadow It ◽  
Art Schools

This article analyzes pages from the piano heritage of D. Kabalevsky, which is addressed to the children studying in children musical schools and art schools. The creative image of the musician is revealed through the prism of his multifaceted artistic and social activity, the assessment of which has undergone some revision nowadays. The article also discusses the reasons of why many previously popular works of famous Soviet composers have faded into the shadow. It is emphasized that Kabalevsky was a graduate of the Piano Faculty of the State Moscow Conservatory and has inherited the wonderful traditions of his teacher, A. B. Goldenweiser. The best traditions of the Moscow piano school are used by Kabalevsky as bases in his creative activity, which acquires specific value in the field of music. Today, when the method of young musicians training is going through innovative transformations, this aspect should be especially considered. The high artistic and instructive value of the composer’s piano heritage is noted. The pieces of the piano cycle “From the Pioneer Life,” op. 14, are methodologically analyzed. It is concluded that Kabalevsky’s cycles addressed to children have not lost their artistic and pedagogical value and therefore can be used in the modern pedagogical practice in their entirety. As for the cycles dedicated to the pioneers’ life, they could play an important educational role by raising the younger generation’s interest in one of the most captivating pages of the country’s past.

S. PROKOFIEV'S "FLEETING MOMENTS": CHOREOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION OF THE PIANO MASTERPIECE

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 115-125
Author(s):  
E. O. Tsvetkova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Musical Development ◽  
Musical Characteristics ◽  
Ballet Music ◽  
Piano Cycle

The article analyzes two versions of choreographic interpretation of S. Prokofiev's piano cycle "Fleeting Moments". The first one belongs to the outstanding Russian ballet master K. Ya. Goleizovsky, the second — to the German choreographer of American origin J. Neumeier. Both compositions are considered in the context of such a trend as "plastic interpretation of non-ballet music". There is a special demand for S. Prokofiev's works (not only ballet scores, but also "non-ballet" opuses) among choreographers, who are attracted by the theatrical nature of the composer's talent: brightness and sharpness of musical characteristics, reliance on "sound gesture", ability to reproduce rhythmic intonation of mood. The "Fleeting Moments" cycle as a whole and in terms of individual pieces is analyzed from the standpoint of openness to choreographic embodiment and compliance with canonical ballet forms and situations. It is underlined that in Goleizovsky's ballet a deeply felt emotion is brought to the fore. Due to the precise adherence to the logic of musical development, conceived as chamber-like this composition embodies the prototype of choreographic symphonism. In Neumeier's ballet, on the contrary, the dramatic plot is emphasized. The choreographer achieves an extraordinary impact by combining classical and modern elements in choreographic vocabulary, supplementing them with movements of free plasticity.

Romantic Irony in Lee Byung-joo"s The Trap of Destiny

2021 ◽  
Vol 70 ◽  
pp. 625-648
Author(s):  
Jung-Youn Lim
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Irony
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