Comments on: Edgar Allan Poe on Song-writing /edgar-allan-poe-on-song-writing/ Neue Musik trifft neue Poesie Sat, 01 Nov 2014 16:44:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.16 By: mr /edgar-allan-poe-on-song-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:48:06 +0000 /?p=358#comment-23 (..) “That  indefinitiveness which is, at least, one of the essentials of true music, must, of course, be kept in view by the song-writer; while, by the critic, it should always be considered in his estimate of the song. It is, in the author, a consciousness – sometimes merely an instinctive appreciation, of this necessity for the indefinite, which imparts to all songs, rightly conceived, that free, affluent, and hearty manner, little scrupulous about niceties of phrase, which cannot be better expressed than by the hackneyed French word abandonnement, and which is so strikingly exemplified in both the serious and joyous ballads and carols of our old English progenitors. Wherever verse has been found most strictly married to music, this feature prevails.”

Edgar Allen Poe: Song-writing, in The Fall of the House of Usher and other writings.

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