Abbott, Helen - Baudelaire in Song

This book looks at a key 50-year period (1880-1930) in France and Europe, to see how and why Baudelaire's poetry has been set to music in classical music, how composers have completely manipulated the texts, which poems they have chosen and why.

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CONTENTS

1 Baudelaire's musical contexts: Approaches to analysing poetry's relationship with music
2 Baudelaire's assemblage: A new model for analysing poetry-as-song
3 Repackaging Baudelaire
4 Maurice Rollinat
5 Gustave Charpentier
6 Alexander Gretchaninov
7 Louis Vierne
8 Alban Berg
Conclusions
Appendix I: Shared critical language used in adaptation, translation, and word/music theory
Bibliography
Discography