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POEMS BY BLAKE & OTHER ROMANTICS

ANALYSED AND SET TO MUSIC BY J. M. SCHROEDER

 

 

ROMANTIC POEMS SET TO MUSIC - START PAGE

Music 1997 - * quicktime samples

 

 

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* William Blake (1757-1827) * W. Wordsworth (1770-1850) * Lord Byron (1788-1824) *

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Music

1997



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poems by Blake, Wordsworth, Byron set to music in rock ballad style:Songs of Innocence and Experience, Tyger, London, Little Vagabond - When We Two Parted, She Walks In Beauty, Solitary Reaper


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Romantic Poems Set To Music
mit Cora & Juergen Matthias Schroeder - 1990-97



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The following samples are shortened versions. The analysis pages offer full-length streaming of these and other songs.

     * Song - Blake

     * Spring - Blake

     * The Tyger - Blake

     * London - Blake

     * The Chimney Sweeper (Solo) - Blake

     * The Chimney Sweeper - Blake

     * Holy Thursday - Blake

     * The Little Vagabond - Blake

     * She walks in beauty - Byron

     * When we two parted - Byron

     * Solitary Reaper - Wordsworth



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The songs were composed in order to reflect and hopefully enhance the meaning of the original poems. In the choice featured above, which represents the original CD as produced in the past there is only minimal accompaniment by guitar or piano. Older versions of the above songs included William Blake's Introduction to Songs of Innocence, Introduction to Songs of Experience, The Human Abstract, Dream. For MORE INFORMATION see CONTACT ADDRESS below.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Manuscript

1997


CONTENTS: didactic, methodical, musical aspects, musicology - Poems by Blake, Wordsworth, Byron set to music in rock ballad style - Songs of Innocence and Experience, Tyger, London, Little Vagabond - When We Two Parted, She Walks In Beauty, Solitary Reaper


The pages of my "English Romantics" website reflect most of the aspects dealt with in the various chapters of the manuscript. The manuscript is available in a printed version or as a WORD file. see CONTACT below


Poems By Blake & Other Romantics
A Modern Encounter Through Music
by Juergen Matthias Schroeder - 1997


1. Introduction
1.1 Concept
1.2 The Author
1.3 Survey of Musical Versions
2. General Teaching Aims - to the "Defence of Poetry"!?
3. Poetry - a problematic issue ?
3.1 Modern Poetry as Learning Material

3.2 Romantic Poetry as Learning Material
4. Musical Versions and Performance as Didactic Elements
4.1 The Link between a Poem and its Musical Version...
4.2 Aspects of the Arrangement of the Musical Version
4.2.1 "Modern" Instrumentation
4.2.2 Voice, Facial Expressions, and Gestures
4.2.3 Notation of Music
4.2.3.1 Aspects of Harmony
4.2.3.2 Aspects of Volume, Time and Articulation
4.2.4 Diagram: Aspects of the Arrangement...
4.3 Didactic & Methodical Functions of a Musical Presentation
4.3.1 Elements for a Formulation of Objectives
4.4 Methods of Presentation and Analysis
4.5 Equipment for "Live" Performance
5. Combined Analysis of Poems and Musical Versions


 

 

 

 

 

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CONTACT

For more information contact JM SCHROEDER Wallgarten 11, D-48249 Duelmen (Germany), Tel. 0049-2594-86271,
or email to poets@englishromantics.com or englishromantic@aol.com




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