Self-reference in literature and music / edited by Walter Bernhart and Werner Wolf.

• Superior document: Word and music studies ; 11
• Author: International Conference on Word and Music Studies
• TeilnehmendeR: Bernhart, Walter.; Wolf, Werner.; International Conference on Word and Music Studies
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Word and music studies ; 11.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (205 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This volume contains a selection of nine essays with an interdisciplinary perspective. They were originally presented at the Sixth International Conference on Word and Music Studies, which was held at Edinburgh University in June 2007 and was organized by the International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA). The contributions to this volume focus on self-reference in various systematic, historical and intermedial ways. Self-reference – including, as a special case, metareference (the self-conscious reflection on music, literature and other medial concerns) – is explored, among others, in instrumental music by Mozart, Mahler and Satie, in the structure and performance of (meta-)operas, in operatic adaptations of drama and filmic adaptations of opera, as well as in intermedial novelistic references to music. The essays cover a historical range from the 18th century to the present and are of interest to literary and opera scholars and students, musicologists as well as all readers generally interested in medial self-reference and intermediality studies.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Metamusic? Potentials and Limits of ‘Metareference’ in Instrumental Music Theoretical Reflections and a Case Study (Mozart’s Ein musikalischer Spaß) / Werner Wolf -- Mahler within Mahler Allusion as Quotation, Self-Reference, and Metareference / Robert Samuels -- Medial Self-Reference between Words and Music in Erik Satie’s Piano Pieces / Peter Dayan -- Opera on Opera (on Opera) Self-Referential Negotiations of a Difficult Genre / Frieder von Ammon -- Christophorus, oder “Die Vision einer Oper” Franz Schreker’s Opera as a Metareferential Work / Walter Bernhart -- ‘The Play’s the Thing’ Self- and Metareference in Contemporary Operatic Adaptation of Twentieth-Century Drama / Michael Halliwell -- Robert Carsen’s Production of Les Contes d’Hoffmann An Exercise in Theatrical Self-Reflection / Simon Williams -- Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci Operatic Metareference on Stage and on Film / Bernhard Kuhn -- Intermedial Reference as Metareference Hans Christian Andersen’s Musical Novels / Joachim Grage -- Notes on Contributors -- Volume 1.