Into the Wordless compares two poems by Walt Whitman, both from his landmark publication Leaves of Grass. These two disparate texts fit together in a hauntingly symbiotic way, and in this setting they are compared musically in two distinct styles that represent a dual-reality experienced by the narrator. As the poems are interwoven section by section, the plagal nature of Gliding Over All joins seamlessly with the pa n-diatonicpatterns in A Clear Midnight, in particular their shared weight of A-flat major historically theorized as the “key of the grave” [Christian Schubart’s Ideen zu einer Ästhetik der Tonkunst, 1806] albeit in different harmonic contexts. [Daniel Elder]
| Genres | Post-1900 |
| NumberOfPages | 20 |
| Publisher | Carus Verlag |
| Contributors | Elder, Daniel(Composer) Schuck, Stefan(Artist) |
| Language | English |
| ISMN | 9790007165079 |