Essays on word/music adaptation and on surveying the field / / edited by David Francis Urrows.

• Superior document: Word and music studies ; 9
• TeilnehmendeR: Urrows, David Francis.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Rodopi B.V.,, 2008.
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Word and Music Studies 9.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 247 pages).
• Notes: "The twelve essays in this volume are drawn from the Fifth International Conference on Word and Music Studies held at Santa Barbara, CA, in 2005"--Page 4 of cover.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette Symphony and the European Reception of Shakespeare /; From Novel to Song via Myth: Wuthering Heights as a Case of Popular Intermedial Adaptation /; From Novel into Film into Opera: Multiple Transformations of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights /; Adaptations of Othello: Shakespeare – Verdi – Zeffirelli /; The Spoken Opera-Film Fedora (1942): Intermedial Transposition and Implicit Operatic References in Film /; Fiterary Mediations of Baroque Music: Biber, Bach, and Nancy Huston /; Interart Contraband: What Passed between García, Fiszt and Sand in “Le Contrebandier” /; Conscientious Translation: Liszt, Robert Franz, and the Phenomenology of Lied Transcription /; Longing for Longing: Song as Transmutation /; Strauss, Idomeneo and Postmodernism /; Description: A Common Potential of Words and Music? /; Whose Classical Music? Reflections on Film Adaptation /; Notes on Contributors.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
• ISBN: 9004358048
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by David Francis Urrows.

The twelve essays presented in this volume are drawn from the Fifth International Conference on Word and Music Studies held at Santa Barbara, CA, in 2005. The conference was organized and sponsored by The International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA) and in its central section explored the theme of “Word/Music Adaptation”. In these wide-ranging papers, a great variety of cases of intermedial transposition between music, literature, drama and film are examined. The music of Berlioz, Biber, Chopin, Carlisle Floyd, Robert Franz, Bernard Herrmann, Liszt, Richard Strauss, Verdi, and pop singer Kate Bush confronts and commingles with the writings of Emily Brontë, Goethe, Nancy Huston, George Sand, and Shakespeare in these cutting-edge adaptation studies. In addition, four films are discussed: Wuthering Heights, Fedora, Otello, and The Notebook . The articles collected will be of interest not only to music and literary scholars, but also to those engaged in the study of adaptation theory, semiotics, literary criticism, narrative theory, art history, feminism or postmodernism.