Allis, MJ orcid.org/0000-0002-1314-6418 (2022) Refiguring the Poetic Elegy in Music: The Rhetoric of Mourning in Parry’s Elegy For Brahms. Music and Letters, 103 (3). gcab101. pp. 430-463. ISSN 0027-4224
Abstract
Of Hubert Parry’s relatively neglected works, his Elegy for Brahms for orchestra (1897) is particularly intriguing. Written to mark Brahms’s death, it was not premiered until Parry’s own memorial concert in 1918. After contextualizing the work in terms of Parry’s clear admiration for Brahms and highlighting significant British orchestral elegies at the turn of the twentieth century, this article suggests how studies of the poetic elegy can be used as a hermeneutic tool to identify a musico-rhetorical structure at the heart of Parry’s composition. Specifically, elegiac conventions and devices identified by Peter Sacks as significant features of poetic models (including the use of repetition, elegiac questioning, processional, the division of mourning voices, and the issue of fame and inheritance) can be identified in Parry’s musical design. This interdisciplinary approach not only creates a distinctive new reading of Parry’s Elegy, but has wider implications for elegiac music in general.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Hubert Parry; Elegy; interdisciplinary; Johannes Brahms; 19th-century British orchestral music; Sterndale Bennett; George Macfarren; allusion |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Music (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 25 Jul 2018 11:03 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2023 21:26 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.1093/ml/gcab101 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:133473 |