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

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 M...

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Superior document:Word and music studies ; 11
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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.
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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.