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Essays on Music and the Spoken Word and on Surveying the Field

Author : Suzanne M. Lodato,David Francis Urrows
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789042018976

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Essays on Music and the Spoken Word and on Surveying the Field by Suzanne M. Lodato,David Francis Urrows Pdf

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 the Field" and "Music and the Spoken Word". Topics include postmodernism, philosophy, German literary modernism, opera, film, the Lied, radio plays, and "verbal counterpoint". They cover the works of such philosophers, critics, literary figures, and composers as Argento, Beckett, Deleuze, Guattari, Feldman, Glenn Gould, Nietzsche, Schubert, Strauss, Wagner, and Wolfram. Three films are discussed: Casablanca, The Fisher King, and Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould.

Word and Music Studies

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004501416

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Word and Music Studies by Anonim Pdf

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 the Field” and “Music and the Spoken Word”. Topics include postmodernism, philosophy, German literary modernism, opera, film, the Lied, radio plays, and “verbal counterpoint”. They cover the works of such philosophers, critics, literary figures, and composers as Argento, Beckett, Deleuze, Guattari, Feldman, Glenn Gould, Nietzsche, Schubert, Strauss, Wagner, and Wolfram. Three films are discussed: Casablanca, The Fisher King, and Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould.

Word, Sound and Music in Radio Drama

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004549609

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Word, Sound and Music in Radio Drama by Anonim Pdf

This collection offers an in-depth study of music’s narrative functions in radio drama, whether original or adapted, alongside speech and sound. It features a range of historical perspectives as well as case studies from Australia, Europe and North America, highlighting broadcasting institutions such as the BBC, RAI, ABC, WDR and SWR, from early radio to the medium’s postwar golden age and contemporary productions. Not limited to classical or popular music, the chapters also pay attention to electronic varieties and musical uses of language, in addition to intermedial exchanges with other art forms such as theatre, opera and film. In doing so, the present volume sits at the crossroads of various disciplines: musicology, narratology, history, literary, media, sound and radio studies.

Music in the Apocalyptic Mode

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004537996

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Music in the Apocalyptic Mode by Anonim Pdf

In this volume, the first panoramic study of music in the apocalyptic mode, an international and trans-disciplinary array of scholars and composers explore the resonance of the ancient biblical Revelation of John across the centuries in musical works as diverse as El Cant de la Sibil·la, the Dies Irae, cantatas and oratorios by Bach and Telemann, Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, Schoenberg’s Second String Quartet, African American Spirituals, Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la fin du temps, Christian “ApokRock,” Hip-hop, Grimes’s album Miss Anthropocene, and the songs of Bob Marley and Bob Dylan. This innovative volume will engage scholars, students, and all those interested in the intersection of music, religion, history, and popular culture.

Franz Liszt’s Songs for Voice and Piano

Author : Małgorzata Gamrat
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789004548862

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Franz Liszt’s Songs for Voice and Piano by Małgorzata Gamrat Pdf

How does a Romantic composer approach the poetry he sets: as raw material to be remade, a pretext for self-expression, a sanctified artefact, or a message to be illustrated with music? In my book, I examine Franz Liszt’s songs for voice and piano, which remain little known to scholars, artists, and music lovers alike. The objective is to present Liszt’s songs in all their complexity and diversity as well as identifying the key elements of the composer’s broadly understood song-writing technique – both those that make him unique and those that relate him to the European tradition. This approach also makes it possible to shed light on a major though previously neglected aspect of the composer’s workshop, namely, his work with the poetic text, which to Liszt was just as important as the musical setting.

Selected Essays on Intermediality by Werner Wolf (1992–2014)

Author : Werner Wolf
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 691 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004346642

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Selected Essays on Intermediality by Werner Wolf (1992–2014) by Werner Wolf Pdf

This volume collects twenty-two major essays by Werner Wolf published between 1992 and 2014, which have contributed to establishing ‘intermediality’ as an internationally recognized research field, providing a widely accepted typology of the field and opening intermedial perspectives on areas as varied as narratology, metareferentiality and iconicity.

Film Music in the Sound Era

Author : Jonathan Rhodes Lee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1096 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000091281

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Film Music in the Sound Era: A Research and Information Guide offers a comprehensive bibliography of scholarship on music in sound film (1927–2017). Thematically organized sections cover historical studies, studies of musicians and filmmakers, genre studies, theory and aesthetics, and other key aspects of film music studies. Broad coverage of works from around the globe, paired with robust indexes and thorough cross-referencing, make this research guide an invaluable tool for all scholars and students investigating the intersection of music and film. This guide is published in two volumes: Volume 1: Histories, Theories, and Genres covers overviews, historical surveys, theory and criticism, studies of film genres, and case studies of individual films. Volume 2: People, Cultures, and Contexts covers individual people, social and cultural studies, studies of musical genre, pedagogy, and the industry. A complete index is included in each volume.

Arts of Incompletion

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004467125

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Arts of Incompletion by Anonim Pdf

Incompletion is an essential condition of cultural history, and particularly the idea of the fragment became a central element of Romantic art which continued being of high relevance to the various strands of modernist and contemporary aesthetics.

Words and Music

Author : Deborah Fillerup Weagel
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : European fiction
ISBN : 1433108364

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Words and Music by Deborah Fillerup Weagel Pdf

Introduction -- Musical contrast in Albert Camus' L'étranger -- Musical counterpoint in Albert Camus' L'étranger -- Musical qualities in Samuel Beckett's En attendant Godot -- Silence in John Cage and Samuel Beckett : 4' 33" and En attendant Godot -- John Cage's collaboration of words and music in the song books -- The edited performance : Glenn Gould's solitude trilogy -- Musical and verbal counterpoint in two short films about Glenn Gould.

Beckett and Musicality

Author : Sara Jane Bailes,Nicholas Till
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317175902

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Beckett and Musicality by Sara Jane Bailes,Nicholas Till Pdf

Discussion concerning the ’musicality’ of Samuel Beckett’s writing now constitutes a familiar critical trope in Beckett Studies, one that continues to be informed by the still-emerging evidence of Beckett’s engagement with music throughout his personal and literary life, and by the ongoing interest of musicians in Beckett’s work. In Beckett’s drama and prose writings, the relationship with music plays out in implicit and explicit ways. Several of his works incorporate canonical music by composers such as Schubert and Beethoven. Other works integrate music as a compositional element, in dialogue or tension with text and image, while others adopt rhythm, repetition and pause to the extent that the texts themselves appear to be ’scored’. But what, precisely, does it mean to say that a piece of prose or writing for theatre, radio or screen, is ’musical’? The essays included in this book explore a number of ways in which Beckett’s writings engage with and are engaged by musicality, discussing familiar and less familiar works by Beckett in detail. Ranging from the scholarly to the personal in their respective modes of response, and informed by approaches from performance and musicology, literary studies, philosophy, musical composition and creative practice, these essays provide a critical examination of the ways we might comprehend musicality as a definitive and often overlooked attribute throughout Beckett’s work.

Samuel Beckett, Repetition and Modern Music

Author : John McGrath
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317059646

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Samuel Beckett, Repetition and Modern Music by John McGrath Pdf

Music abounds in twentieth- century Irish literature. Whether it be the "thought-tormented" music of Joyce’s "The Dead", the folk tunes and opera that resound throughout Ulysses, or the four- part threnody in Beckett’s Watt, it is clear that the influence of music on the written word in Ireland is deeply significant. Samuel Beckett arguably went further than any other writer in the incorporation of musical ideas into his work. Musical quotations inhabit his texts, and structural devices such as the da capo are metaphorically employed. Perhaps most striking is the erosion of explicit meaning in Beckett’s later prose brought about through an extensive use of repetition, influenced by his reading of Schopenhauer’s philosophy of music. Exploring this notion of "semantic fluidity", John McGrath discusses the ways in which Beckett utilised extreme repetition to create texts that operate and are received more like music. Beckett’s writing has attracted the attention of numerous contemporary composers and an investigation into how this Beckettian "musicalized fiction" has been retranslated into contemporary music forms the second half of the book. Close analyses of the Beckett- inspired music of experimental composer Morton Feldman and the structured improvisations of avantjazz guitarist Scott Fields illustrate the cross- genre appeal of Beckett to musicians, but also demonstrate how repetition operates in diverse ways. Through the examination of the pivotal role of repetition in both music and literature of the twentieth century and beyond, John McGrath’s book is a significant contribution to the field of Word and Music Studies.

Headaches Among the Overtones

Author : Catherine Laws
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401210270

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Headaches Among the Overtones by Catherine Laws Pdf

Samuel Beckett produced some of the most powerful writing – some of the funniest but most devastating – of the twentieth century. He described his plays, prose and poetry as ‘an unnecessary stain on the silence’, but the extraordinary combination of concision and richness in his writing stems from his peculiar sensitivity to the sounds and rhythms of words. Moreover, music forms a part of Beckett’s comic aesthetics of failure: it plays a role in his exploration of the possibilities and failures of the imagination, and the ever-failing attempt to forge a sense of self. No wonder, then, that so many composers have taken inspiration from Beckett, setting his words to music or translating into music the dramatic themes or contexts of his work. Headaches Among the Overtones considers both music in Beckett and Beckett’s significance in contemporary music. In doing so, it explores the relationship between words, music and meaning, examining how comparable philosophical concerns and artistic effects appear in literature and music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

The Ashgate Research Companion to Minimalist and Postminimalist Music

Author : Keith Potter,Kyle Gann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317042549

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The Ashgate Research Companion to Minimalist and Postminimalist Music by Keith Potter,Kyle Gann Pdf

In recent years the music of minimalist composers such as La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Philip Glass has, increasingly, become the subject of important musicological reflection, research and debate. Scholars have also been turning their attention to the work of lesser-known contemporaries such as Phill Niblock and Eliane Radigue, or to second and third generation minimalists such as John Adams, Louis Andriessen, Michael Nyman and William Duckworth, whose range of styles may undermine any sense of shared aesthetic approach but whose output is still to a large extent informed by the innovative work of their minimalist predecessors. Attempts have also been made by a number of academics to contextualise the work of composers who have moved in parallel with these developments while remaining resolutely outside its immediate environment, including such diverse figures as Karel Goeyvaerts, Robert Ashley, Arvo Pärt and Brian Eno. Theory has reflected practice in many respects, with the multimedia works of Reich and Glass encouraging interdisciplinary approaches, associations and interconnections. Minimalism’s role in culture and society has also become the subject of recent interest and debate, complementing existing scholarship, which addressed the subject from the perspective of historiography, analysis, aesthetics and philosophy. The Ashgate Research Companion to Minimalist and Postminimalist Music provides an authoritative overview of established research in this area, while also offering new and innovative approaches to the subject.

Shared Meanings in the Film Music of Philip Glass

Author : Tristian Evans
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317055723

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Shared Meanings in the Film Music of Philip Glass by Tristian Evans Pdf

The study of music within multimedia contexts has become an increasingly active area of scholarly research. However, the application of such studies to musical genres outside the 'classical' film canon, or in television and other media remains largely unexplored in any detail. Tristian Evans demonstrates how postminimal music interacts with other media forms, focusing on the film music by Philip Glass, but also taking into account works by other composers such as Steve Reich, Terry Riley, John Adams and others inspired by minimalist and postminimal practices. Additionally, Evans develops innovative ways of analysing this music, based on an interdisciplinary approach, and draws on research from areas that include philosophy, linguistics and film theory. The book offers one of the first in-depth studies of Philip Glass's music for film, considering The Hours and Dracula, Naqoyqatsi, Notes on a Scandal and Watchmen, while examining re-applications of the music in new cinematic and televisual contexts. The book will appeal to musicologists but also to those working in the fields of film music, cultural studies, media studies and multimedia.

The Rock Music Imagination

Author : Robert McParland
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781498588539

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The Rock Music Imagination by Robert McParland Pdf

The Rock Music Imagination explores creativity in classic rock, its roots in the blues, and its wide cultural impact. The romantic strains of rock imagination are examined in the songs of popular rock bands, the sixties counterculture, science fiction, the rock music novel, and rock’s attention to human rights in the global community.