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Five Songs after Romantic Poems<\/strong> was written in the early Summer of 2003, while I was in the midst of teaching summer session here at West Chester University.\u00a0 I had recently undertaken a study of Schubert and Schumann songs in my theory teaching and felt the need to react to this exciting music.\u00a0 As I am a countertenor, I spend most of my time singing music before 1750, and most 19th<\/sup> century vocal literature is awkward even in transposition.\u00a0 These songs are inspired by Romanticism but are not meant to be pastiches of Romantic style.\u00a0 My experience with troubadour song, 17th<\/sup> century monody, the exquisite English vocal music of Henry Purcell and Benjamin Britten, and particularly the chansons of Faure and Debussy were other influences on my pen.\u00a0 The texts were chosen for their resonances within me.\u00a0 For instance, Keats speaks of the rules of poetry in musical terms, obliquely invoking ancient Greece and Rome; the poetics of Verlaine and Muset were inherited from the art of the medieval French trouv\u00e8res, and Wilde\u2019s political rant could have been written in response to today\u2019s newspapers.\u00a0 Baudelaire’s bitterweet musical imagery rhymes with Musset’s, though his mystic sorrow resembles the power of the Will as characterized in the writings of Schopenhauer.\u00a0 Some images return between songs \u2013 the bay-leaf crown given to poet laureates, the beauty of sadness that is a common clich\u00e9 in French art, and the similar light\/dark (chiaroscuro) effect of Keats\u2019 poetry.\u00a0 The songs use a variety of tonal and non-tonal elements, with the diction of the text as the starting point for each song.\u00a0 These songs were written for my teacher and colleague Drew Minter.
\nMark Rimple<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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