On voice / / 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 singin...
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| Superior document: | Word and Music Studies ; 13 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam, Netherlands : : Rodopi,, 2014. ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Word and music studies ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- “Her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty”: Reflections on Voice in the Operatic Adaptations of The Great Gatsby and Sophie’s Choice / Michael Halliwell
- The Vocal Persona of Jussi Björling / Simon Williams
- The Voice of/in Opera / Lawrence Kramer
- Resonances and Dissonances: Listening to Waltraud Meier’s Envoicing of Isolde / Laura Wahlfors
- From Vox alias Phoné to Voice: A Few Terminological Observations / Albrecht Riethmüller
- Indefiniteness, Ethereality, and Unarticulated Meaning: Breath, Music and the Problem of ‘Voice’ in Poe’s “Ligeia” / Charity McAdams
- Voice and Vocation in the Novels of George Eliot / Delia da Sousa Correa
- Voice and Presence in Music and Literature Virginia Woolf’s The Waves / Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen
- The Mahlerian Mask: On Heine’s Voice and Visage in Post-War Germany / Axel Englund
- Voice and Voices in Oratorios: On Sacred and Other Voices / Gerold W. Gruber
- Schubert’s Instrumental Voice: Vocality in Melodic Construction in the Late Works / Robert Samuels
- Composing Voices and Ravel’s L’Heure espagnole / Jessie Fillerup
- La Castrata and the Voices in My Head / David Francis Urrows
- Homer Simpson’s “Doh!”: Singsong between Music and Speech / Albrecht Riethmüller
- Notes on Contributors.