Poetry and Music Relationship in Let my Love be Heard by Jake Runestad
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https://doi.org/10.33871/vortex.2026.14.11041Keywords:
Music Analysis, contemporary choir, Music and text, Topic Theory, Elegiac TopicAbstract
This article has as its object of study the text-music relationship of Let my Love be Heard by Jake Runestad, composed for mixed choir. Traditional and contemporary analytical approaches were used, such as harmonic, thematic, formal, and musical topic analysis, in order to elaborate an analytical hypothesis that can reveal the structural relationships of the music in dialogue with the pre-existing poetry that constitutes the sung text of the work. For the realization of the topic analysis, it was necessary to propose a definition for the "elegiac topic," due to the absence of a clear definition of it by the theory authors.
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