TUESDAY. DECEMBER
Weisgall Discusses
Poets, Composers
The great balance in the struggle between composers and
poets has been struck during only two historical periods—
Elizabethan England and 19th century Germany, Hugo Weis
gall said last night.
Weisgall, distinguished visiting professor of music, dis
cussed the histoiy of the union
end separation of words and mu
sic at the founder’s day banquet
of State College chapter of Phi
Beta Kappa.
Both the English and Geiman
period he said, had great poets
and composers as coniemporai ies,
and the one cooperating with the
other made them great.
Weisgall cited Stravinky's
setting to music of the works
of Andre Gide and Dylan Thom
as as significant unions of
words and music in the 20th
century,
Shoenberg, who composed the
music and wrote the words of
“Aaron and Moses,” was described
by Weisgall as perhaps one of the
eight wonders of the 20th century.
In a short sketch of the history
of words and music, he first de
scribed primitive music in which
the “musical rhythms seem to
guide the meaning of the words.
Other great poet composers
were the Hebrew King David
who composed mafiy of the
psalms, and the Greek poet com
poser Sappho.
During Roman times there was
s separation between words and
music, but in medieval times the
poet and composer were brought
together in cooperation to pro
duce the troubadors, minnesingers
and tiouvers of the middle ages
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The woik for which one is
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higher education. However, I
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