Essays on music and the spoken word and on surveying the field / edited by Suzanne M. Lodato and David Francis Urrows

Published: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2005.
Physical Description: xii, 200 pages : illustrations, music ; 22 cm.
Additional Creators: Lodato, Suzanne M., Urrows, David Francis, and International Conference on Word and Music Studies (4th : 2003 : Berlin, Germany)

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Word and music studies ; 7.

Language Note

Text in English with quoted passages in German.

Contents

Introduction / Suzanne M. Lodato -- Deleuze, music and modernist mimesis / Eric Prieto -- Listening to Parsifal: premodern romance, modern music drama, postmodern film / David L. Mosley -- 'Opera about opera': self-referentiality in opera with particular reference to Dominick Argento's The Aspern papers / Michael Halliwell -- Schubert's strategies in setting free verse / Jürgen Thym --False assumptions: Richard Strauss's lieder and text/music analysis / Suzanne M. Lodato -- Speaking melody, melodic speech / Lawrence Kramer -- Language and/or music as man's 'comfort'?: Beckett's metamedial allegory Words and music / Werner Wolf -- Beckett, Feldman, Joe and Bob: speaking of music in Words and music / Stephen Benson -- Musical and verbal counterpoint in Thirty two short films about Glenn Gould / Deborah Weagel -- Notes on contributors.

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9042018976 (pbk.)

Note

Essays from the Fourth International Conference of the International Association for Word and Music Studies, held in Berlin in 2003.

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references.

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