Song acts
Subtitle: writings on words and music
By: by Lawrence Kramer ; foreword by Richard Leppert ; edited by Walter Bernhart
Contributors: Leppert, Richard D.; Bernhart, Walter
Series: Word and music studies -- Volume 16; Word and music studies -- 16.
Publisher: Brill Rodopi
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 463
ISBN-13: 9789004342125
Subjects: Musical criticism; Songs; History and criticism; Opera; Music and literature
Work titles: Essays
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Song; title: The Schubert Lied: Romantic Form and Romantic Consciousness; title: Performance and Social Meaning in the Lied: Schubert's Erster Verlust; title: "Syringa": John Ashbery and Elliott Carter; title: Decadence and Desire: The Wilhelm Meister Songs of Wolf and Schubert; title: Hugo Wolf: Subjectivity in the Fin-de-Siáecle Lied; title: Recognizing Schubert: Musical Subjectivity, Cultural Change, and Jane Campion's The Portrait of a Lady; title: "Little Pearl Teardrops": Schubert, Schumann, and the Tremulous Body of Romantic Song; title: The Harem Threshold: Turkish Music and Greek Love in Beethoven's "Ode to Joy"; title: Like Falling Leaves: The Erotics of Mourning in Four Drum-Taps Settings; title: Murderous Women in German Opera; title: "Longindyingcall": of Music, Modernity, and the Sirens; title: Recalling the Sublime: The Logic of Creation in Haydn's Creation; title: Wagner's Gold Standard: Tannhèauser and the General Equivalent; title: The Talking Wound and the Foolish Question: Symbolization in Parsifal; title: The Great American Opera: Klinghoffer, Streetcar, and the Exception; title: Modern Madrigalisms: Elliott Carter and the Aesthetics of Art Song; title: The Strange Case of Beethoven's Coriolan: Romantic Aesthetics, Modern Subjectivity, and the Cult of Shakespeare; title: Tolstoy's Beethoven, Beethoven's Tolstoy: The Kreutzer Sonata; title: Subjectivity Unbound: Music, Language, Culture.