Sonic transformations of literary texts
Subtitle: from program music to musical ekphrasis : ten essays
By: edited by Siglind Bruhn.
Contributors: Bruhn, Siglind.
Series: Interplay : music in interdisciplinary dialogue -- no. 6
Publisher: Pendragon Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Hillsdale, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781576471401
Subjects: Music and literature; Program music
Description: "Among the possible relationships between art forms that express themselves in different sign systems, the pairing of words and images is the one that is most thoroughly explored. And in fact, the most securely established terminology is found in a field that has experienced a significant revival in recent years: ekphrasis. The literary topos through which a poem (or any other text) addresses itself to the visual arts has received much attention in recent years and been subjected to intense scrutiny."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Fateful couples and symbols of death in romantic piano music and opera. Chopin's Preludes op. 28 and Lamartine's Les préludes / Anatole Leikin ; Transposition and transition : Berlioz's Romeo et Juliette / John Neubauer ; Chaos in the language and music of Othello/Otello / Jeffrey Kurtzm; title: Echoes of anguish and agony in 20th-century chamber music. Interpreting interpretation : Janácek's String quartet no. 1 / William Dougherty ; Streicht dunkler die Geigen : on musical renderings of Paul Celan's poetry / Axel Englund ; Ming-I, darkening of the light : Walter Steffens's Piano quartet on a poem by Nelly Sachs / Siglind Bruhn; title: Intermedial re-presentations and reflections in musical expressionism. The relationship to the text : Arnold Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht, op. 4, and Pelleas und Melisande, op. 5 / Gerold W. Gruber ; Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire : a musical transformation of art nouveau / Beat Föllmi ; Amers : André Boucourechliev and Saint-John Perse, a missed encounter? / Christine Esclapez ; The tone poem : music between literary criticism, tone painting, and sonata form plots / Mathieu Schneider.