Essays on music and the spoken word and on surveying the field /

The nine interdisciplinary essays in this volume were presented in 2003 in Berlin at the Fourth International Conference on Word and Music Studies, which was sponsored by The International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA). The nine articles in this volume cover two areas: "Surveying...

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Corporate Author: International Conference on Word and Music Studies
Other Authors: Lodato, Suzanne M., Urrows, David Francis
Format: Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2005.
Series:Word and music studies ; 7.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of 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.