Thank you..
I used through composed to describe Mozart's Abendempfindung... which made
me really embarrassed to asked what it meant because this time last
semester it made so much sense!
THANK YOU so much for your help!
Have you the bibliography for your Dictionary?
I'm writing a paper on Reynaldo Hahn and the development of the melodie for
Art Song class
MarieAnn
At 08:38 PM 4/17/00 -0400, you wrote:
>MarieAnn Nicola wrote:
>
>> What's the definition for through composed melody?
>
>> I haven't a music dictionary, and this is the only place I would think
>> where people would know what I'm talking about.
>
>This is from my Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music, in a definition for
"durch" which
>"through-composed (Ger. durchkomponiert)" referred me to:
>
>"Applied to songs of which the music is different for each stanza of the
poem, i.e., the
>opposite of strophic; but use of the term has been widened to mean a
composition which has
>been 'fully worked out', 'thoroughly composed', as oposed to something
that seems episodic
>or patchy."
>
>I've also seen the term used to describe certain Broadway-style musical
theater works such
>as "Phantom of the Opera", "Les Miserables" or "Miss Saigon".
>
>Peggy
>
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