On voice / / edited by Walter Bernhart and Lawrence Kramer ; contributors Delia da Sousa Correa [and eleven others].

• Superior document: Word and Music Studies ; 13
• TeilnehmendeR: Bernhart, Walter,; Kramer, Lawrence,; Sousa Correa, Delia da,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam, Netherlands : : Rodopi,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Word and music studies ; 13.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; “Her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty”: Reflections on Voice in the Operatic Adaptations of The Great Gatsby and Sophie’s Choice /; The Vocal Persona of Jussi Björling /; The Voice of/in Opera /; Resonances and Dissonances: Listening to Waltraud Meier’s Envoicing of Isolde /; From Vox alias Phoné to Voice: A Few Terminological Observations /; Indefiniteness, Ethereality, and Unarticulated Meaning: Breath, Music and the Problem of ‘Voice’ in Poe’s “Ligeia” /; Voice and Vocation in the Novels of George Eliot /; Voice and Presence in Music and Literature Virginia Woolf’s The Waves /; The Mahlerian Mask: On Heine’s Voice and Visage in Post-War Germany /; Voice and Voices in Oratorios: On Sacred and Other Voices /; Schubert’s Instrumental Voice: Vocality in Melodic Construction in the Late Works /; Composing Voices and Ravel’s L’Heure espagnole /; La Castrata and the Voices in My Head /; Homer Simpson’s “Doh!”: Singsong between Music and Speech /; Notes on Contributors.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
• ISBN: 9401210683
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Walter Bernhart and Lawrence Kramer ; contributors Delia da Sousa Correa [and eleven others].

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 singing? Is it a mark of presence or of absence? Is it a kind of object? How is our sense of voice affected by the development of recording technology? The authors in this volume approach such questions primarily by turning away from a general idea of voice and instead investigating what can be learned by attending to the qualities and acts of particular voices. The range is wide: from Poe’s “Leigeia” to Woolf’s The Waves , from Jussi Björling to Waltraud Meier, from song to oratorio to opera and beyond. Throughout, consistent with the volume’s origin in papers delivered at the eighth biennial meeting of the International Association for Word and Music Studies, the role of voice in joining or separating words and music is paramount. These studies address key topics in musicology, literary criticism, philosophy, aesthetics, and performance studies, and will also appeal to practicing musicians.