1) Walter Bernhart: Masterminding Word and Music Studies / Introduction to Benjamin Britten
1. Music and Literature
2. Britten’s work for solo vocal, choral and stage
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2) Paul Kildea: “Britten, Auden and ‘otherness’.”
1. The relationship between Britten and Auden
2. The cooperation between a composer and a poet
1. Music and Literature
2. Britten’s work for solo vocal, choral and stage
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3) Auden: Our Hunting Fathers (1.Prologue / 2.Rats Away! / 3.Messalina / 4.Dance of Death (Hawking f
Poems on animals in their relationship – as pests, pets, and as a means of sports – with humans: Auden’s social conscience in his ironic and compassionate didactic weld.
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4) Britten: Our Hunting Fathers (1.Prologue / 2.Rats Away! / 3.Messalina / 4.Dance of Death (Hawking
The comprehension of Our Hunting Fathers through Britten’s music: The enhancement, illustration, accompaniment, assimilation, and embodiment of music to the word.
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5) Auden: Twelve Songs / On This Island /
Interpretation of the poems / Why is Auden’s language appropriate for composition?
1. III of Twelve Songs: Let the florid music praise
2. VI of Twelve Songs: Now the leaves are falling fast
3. Seascape (On This Island)
4. Nocturne
5. As It Is Plenty (His Excellency)
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6) Britten: On this island
How is “word painting” employed in the composition? Why are these 5 poems chosen for one cycle? The textual structure and musical composition of On this Island
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7) Rimbaud: Les illuminations (in English translation)
1. Nine prose poems from Les illuminations: “ Fanfare,” “Villes,” “Phrase,” “Antique,” “Royaute,” “Marine,” “Interlude,” “Being Beauteous,” “Parade,” and “Depart” with their themes on the horror of the city, anguish, ecstasy, metamorphosis, nature, walking and travel, and creation and destruction.
2. It’s musical “feeling” into words.
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8) Songs from the Chinese: 1. ”The Big Chariot”，選自詩經小雅「無將大車」
1. Chinese texts and English translations
2. Analysis of the poems: Themes on life, youth and beauty
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10) The poet William Blake
1. William Blake in history of English literature
2. The musicality of Blake’s creation
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11) Songs and Proverbs of William Blake: Texts selected by Peter Pears from 1) the Songs of Experien
Six excerpts from the Proverbs of Hell alternate with six Songs of Experience, and a last aphorism, from the Auguries of Innocence, leads into the last song, performed without a break: How cross-references between proverbs and songs link the subject-matter, the hypocrisy of institutional religion?
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12) Britten & Hardy: Winter Words
Lyrics and ballads of Thomas Hardy: 1) At day-close in November; 2) Midnight on the Great Western; 3) Wagtail and baby; 4) The little old table; 5) The choirmaster's burial; 6) Proud songsters; 7) At the railway station, Upway; 8) Before life and after: Connections between music and subject-matter / What does it hide behind the imitative sound symbols?
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13) Britten & Pushkin / The Poet’s Echo (in English translation)
Alexander Pushkin: 1) Echo; 2) My heart...; 3) Angel; 4) The nightingale and the rose; 5) Epigram; 6) Lines written during a sleepless night: How echo makes sound-shape reverberating in the listeners’ memory without constituting a cycle?
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14) Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
1. A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A truly original piece without relying directly upon existing plays, narrative poetry, or any historical chronicles
2. The elements of earlier mythologically based literature
3. The plot, characters, and theme
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15) Mervyn Cooke: “Britten and Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
Britten and Shakespeare: the reason to choose Shakespeare
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16) Britten: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
1. The dramatic structure of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in music
2. The libretto
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