Words and Notes in the Long Nineteenth Century

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-84383-811-1
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, 268 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 599 g

A new wave of scholarship inspired by the ways the writers and musicians of the long nineteenth century themselves approached the relationship between music and words.

Words and Notes encourages a new wave of scholarship inspired by the ways writers and musicians of the long nineteenth century themselves approached the relationship between music and words. Contributors to the volume engage in two dialogues: with nineteenth-century conceptions of word-music relations, and with each other. Criss-crossing disciplinary boundaries, the authors of the book's eleven essays address new questions relating to listening, imagining and performing music, the act of critique, and music's links with philosophy and aesthetics. The many points of intersection are elucidated in an editorial introduction and via a reflective afterword. Fiction and poetry, musicography, philosophy, music theory, science and music analysis all feature, as do traditions within English, French and German studies.
Wide-ranging material foregrounds musical memory, soundscape and evocation; performer dilemmas over the words in Satie's piano music; the musicality of fictional and non-fictional prose; text-setting and the rights of poet vs. composer; the rich novelistic and critical testimony of audience inattention at the opera;German philosophy's potential contribution to musical listening; and Hoffmann's send-ups of the serious music-lover. Throughout, music - its composition, performance and consumption - emerges as a profoundly physical and social force, even when it is presented as the opposite.

PHYLLIS WELIVER is Associate Professor of English, Saint Louis University.

KATHARINE ELLIS is Stanley Hugh Badock Professor of Music at the University of Bristol.

Contributors: Helen Abbott, Noelle Chao, Delia da Sousa Correa, Peter Dayan, Katharine Ellis, David Evans, Annegret Fauser, Jon-Tomas Godin, Cormac Newark, Matthew Riley, Emma Sutton, Shafquat Towheed, Susan Youens, Phyllis Weliver

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weliver, Phyllis

Ellis, Katharine

Weitere Mitwirkende

Fauser, Annegret

Newark, Cormac

Evans, David

da Sousa Correa, Delia

Sutton, Emma

Abbott, Helen

Godin, Jon-Tomas

Ellis, Katharine

Chao, Noelle

Dayan, Peter

Weliver, Phyllis

Towheed, Shafquat

Youens, Susan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Geschichte der Musik: Romantik (ca. 1830-1900)
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikwissenschaft: Rezeption, Einflüsse und Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Approaches to Word-Music Studies of the Long Nineteenth Century - Phyllis Weliver and Katharine Ellis
Losing Sense, Making Music: What Erik Satie's Music and Poetry do for Each Other - Peter Dayan
Not Listening in Paris: Critical and Fictional Lapses of Attention at the Opera - Cormac Newark
New Expectations: How to Listen to Sonata Form, 1800-1860 - Jon-Tomas Godin
The Science of Musical Memory: Vernon Lee and the Remembrance of Sounds Past - Shafquat Towheed
Musical Listening in The Mysteries of Udolpho - Noelle Chao
Katherine Mansfield and Nineteenth-Century Musicality - Delia da Sousa Correa
E.T.A. Hoffmann Beyond the 'Paradigm Shift': Music and Irony in the Novellas 1815-1819 -

Fiction as Musical Critique: Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out and the Case of Wagner - Emma Sutton
Théodore de Banville and the Mysteries of Song - David Evans
Performing Poetry as Music: How Composers Accept Baudelaire's Invitation to Song - Helen Abbott
The Grit in the Oyster, or How to Quarrel with a Poet - Susan Youens
Afterword: Wording Notes: Musical Marginalia in the Guise of an Afterword - Annegret Fauser

Über Autor(innen)

Weliver, Phyllis
PHYLLIS WELIVER is Professor of English at Saint Louis University.

Weliver, Phyllis
PHYLLIS WELIVER is Professor of English at Saint Louis University.

Fauser, Annegret
ANNEGRET FAUSER, Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Music, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Ellis, Katharine
KATHARINE ELLIS is 1684 Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge.

Ellis, Katharine
KATHARINE ELLIS is 1684 Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge.

PHYLLIS WELIVER is Associate Professor of English, Saint Louis University.

KATHARINE ELLIS is Professor of Music, Royal Holloway, University of London. As of January 2013, Katharine Ellis will be Stanley Hugh Badock Professor of Music at the University of Bristol.