Essays on music and the spoken word and on surveying the field
By: edited by Suzanne M. Lodato and David Francis Urrows.
Contributors: Lodato, Suzanne M.; Urrows, David Francis.; International Conference on Word and Music Studies (4th : 2003 : Berlin, Germany)
Series: Word and music studies -- 7
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: Music and literature -- Congresses.; Music in literature -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Essays from the Fourth International Conference of the International Association for Word and Music Studies, held in Berlin in 2003.

Includes bibliographical references.

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