Project Director Prof. Helen Abbott and Research Associate Dr Caroline Ardrey were interviewed by James O’Sullivan for the Cultural Mechanics podcast series in 2016. Hear all about the project, what […]
#myBaudelaire: New Baudelaire songs!
By Prof. Helen Abbott (Project Director) We’ve been hard at work here at the Baudelaire Song Project. Since our move to Birmingham in September 2016, we’re making rapid progress with […]
Can computational analysis help us to understand why Baudelaire is a hit with musicians?
By Dr Caroline Ardrey (Project Research Associate) Project Research Associate Dr Caroline Ardrey looks to computational analysis to examine why Baudelaire is still so popular with composers and singers. In 2014 David H. Henard and Christian L. […]
What musical sources say to poetry: Déodat de Séverac’s drafts on Baudelaire
By Dr Mylène Dubiau (Project Co-Director, Université Toulouse II – Jean Jaurès) Project Co-Director Dr Mylène Dubiau explores a rare Baudelaire setting by a composer close to her own […]
Baudelaire in unexpected places: Sheffield
By Dr Helen Abbott (Project Director) Project Director Dr Helen Abbott explores how the project team unearth Baudelaire settings … and find him closer to home than expected! Baudelaire […]
Henri Dutilleux, haunted by Baudelaire
By Dr Caroline Potter (BSP Associate, and Reader in Music, Kingston University) ‘Baudelaire continues to haunt me’, said Henri Dutilleux (1916-2013) in an interview with Mezzo Voce in 2010, when […]
Music and memory: how singing could make you a better linguist
By Dr Caroline Ardrey (Project Research Associate) Song is central to our culture and integral to our learning processes. Key events in our lives are marked by music; from the […]
Why choose Baudelaire?
By Dr Helen Abbott (Project Director) When the idea for this project first germinated, one of the questions was ‘why choose Baudelaire?’ over any of the other major French poets […]