Goethe's "Suleika"
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2007
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Boucher, Cynthia
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Musicological Explorations
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Addresses the concept of Orientalism, a historical shift in musical structure, and the suitability of texts for various musical structures by examining two settings of a poem by Goethe. The poem Suleika, of Goethe's West-Östlicher Divan, is analyzed in terms of an East-West dichotomy and of Goethe's expressed concerns about the proper musical setting of a poetic text. The concept of Orientalism is also at play in settings of the poem by Schubert and Carl Friedrich Zelter.
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Boucher, C. (2007). Goethe's "Suleika." Musicological Explorations, 8, 65-96. https://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/me/article/view/37