Songs with and without words from Beyond the Bony Labyrinth

Beyond the Bony Labyrinth

Lodewijk Muns

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Songs with and without words

33 minutes Posted Aug 1, 2024 at 6:45 am.

Intro

Casual listening

Music as poetry

The ‘song without words’

Childish games

The marginal existence of the vocalise

F. Schubert, An de Mond D259. Wolfgang Holzmair, Gérard Wyss. Tudor 791. 1992.

F. Schubert, An de Mond D296. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Jörg Demus. Deutsche Grammophon 00289 479 6018.

F. Schubert, An de Mond D296. Piano*

F. Liszt, Sonetto 104 del Petrarca. Piano*

F. Mendelssohn, Lied ohne Worte op. 62 nr. 1 (complete). Piano*

M. Ravel, Vocalise en forme de habanera. Teresa Berganza, Dalton Baldwin. EMI 7243 5 69299 2 0.

R. Glier, Concerto for Coloratura Soprano and Orchestra op. 82. Erna Berger, Sergiu Celibidache, Berliner Philharmoniker. Berlin 1946/47. Audiophile.

L. Muns, Aria-Vocalise from the Chamber Opera Pedrillo Botón.

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What remains of a song if you ignore the lyrics? What makes a song without words a 'song'? And why is singing without lyrics such a rare phenomenon?

Music fragments:

*Lodewijk Muns, piano

Main sources:

Cooper, J. M. “Words without Songs?: Of Texts, Titles, and Mendelssohn’s ‘Lieder Ohne Worte.’” In Musik als Text Bd. 2. Kassel: Bärenreiter 1998.

Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, F. Sämtliche Briefe. Kassel: Bärenreiter 2008-2017.

Todd, R. L.“Mendelssohn’s Lieder ohne Worte and the Limits of Musical Expression.” In Nicole Grimes and Angela Mace (eds). Mendelssohn Perspectives. Farnham: Ashgate 2012.

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