„Overhear the musical motif”. About a music-poetic cycle on the example of Music in the evening by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz Cover Image

„Podsłuchać muzyczny motyw”. O cyklu muzyczno-poetyckim na przykładzie Muzyki wieczorem Jarosława Iwaszkiewicza
„Overhear the musical motif”. About a music-poetic cycle on the example of Music in the evening by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz

Author(s): Aleksandra Reimann
Subject(s): Music, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: J. Iwaszkiewicz; poetry; music; cyclic forms; musical order in literature;

Summary/Abstract: The article compares the cyclic form in music with the poetic cycle. The analytico-interpretational identifying of two sub-cycles: “Music for quartet” and “Music for orchestra”, which make up the volume, helped to formulate the interdisciplinary proposition of terminology: the music-poetic cycle, which in literature also implies musical order. A reading dictated by musical expectations towards the verses touches upon many issues, such as song forms (AB, but also Lied), dynamics, intonation, phonemic assembly, the occurrence of motifs. Texts, which usually have musical titles allow comparative interpretations. The volume on poetry by Iwaszkiewicz is an example of music-literary complementarity, which must be respected, if the cycle is to be understood fully.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 15
  • Page Range: 199-228
  • Page Count: 30
  • Language: Polish