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Song Acts
Writings on Words and Music
Inbunden, 2017
2972 kr
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This volume collects twenty of Lawrence Kramer’s seminal writings on art song (especially Lieder), opera, and word-music relationships. All examine the formative role of culture in musical meaning and performance, and all seek to demonstrate the complexity and nuance that arise when words and music …
Music, Narrative and the Moving Image
Varieties of Plurimedial Interrelations
Inbunden, 2019
2429 kr
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'Make It Old': Retro Forms and Styles in Literature and Music
Inbunden, 2022
1887 kr
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‘Retro’ is not only a pervading phenomenon in today’s Western culture but has informed cultural history for some centuries and thus gives momentousness to the subject of the present volume, namely literary texts and musical compositions which, for various reasons and with multiple functions, ‘make …
Music in the Apocalyptic Mode
Inbunden, 2023
2186 kr
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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 …
Franz Liszt’s Songs for Voice and Piano
The Composer's Approach to Poetry and Music
Inbunden, 2023
1929 kr
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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 …
Word, Sound and Music in Radio Drama
Av Pim Verhulst
Inbunden, 2023
1779 kr
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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 …
Essays on Word/Music Adaptation and on Surveying the Field
Häftad, 2008
1539 kr
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The twelve essays presented in this volume are drawn from the Fifth International Conference on Word and Music Studies held at Santa Barbara, CA, in 2005. The conference was organized and sponsored by The International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA) and in its central section explored …
Self-Reference in Literature and Music
Häftad, 2010
1162 kr
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This volume contains a selection of nine essays with an interdisciplinary perspective. They were originally presented at the Sixth International Conference on Word and Music Studies, which was held at Edinburgh University in June 2007 and was organized by the International Association for Word and …
Word and Music Studies: Essays on Performativity and on Surveying the Field
Häftad, 2011
1858 kr
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The main section of this volume of essays addresses the topic of ‘Performativity in Literature and Music’, a subject of high contemporary relevance since a substantial part of recent reflections in the humanities are concerned with the performance aspect of cultural activities, particularly in the …
On Voice
Häftad, 2014
1230 kr
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The essays collected here raise a simple but rarely asked question: just what, exactly, is voice? From this founding question, many others proliferate: Is voice an animal category, as Aristotle thought? Or is it distinctively human? Is it essentially related to language? To music? To song and …
