Oade, Stephanie - Catullus in Twentieth-Century Music

Furthers the integration of music into the field of classical reception studies, balancing text and music in order to illuminate the nature of lyric
• Identifies important lyric characteristics that run throughout Catullus's corpus of poems
• Presents musical reception case studies to develop a wider understanding of Catullus's lyric voice
• Demonstrates how study of ancient sources is fundamental to our understanding of a musical work

Catullus in Twentieth-Century Music reinvigorates discussions around the nature of Catullus's lyricism, centring around four musical works from the twentieth century. Stephanie Oade considers how and why musical composers used Catullus's poetry as their stimulus to uncover new ideas about Catullus's poetry.