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.

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...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette Symphony and the European Reception of Shakespeare / Simon Williams
• From Novel to Song via Myth: Wuthering Heights as a Case of Popular Intermedial Adaptation / Walter Bernhart
• From Novel into Film into Opera: Multiple Transformations of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights / Michael Halliwell
• Adaptations of Othello: Shakespeare – Verdi – Zeffirelli / Ulla-Britta Lagerroth
• The Spoken Opera-Film Fedora (1942): Intermedial Transposition and Implicit Operatic References in Film / Bernhard Kuhn
• Fiterary Mediations of Baroque Music: Biber, Bach, and Nancy Huston / Frédérique Arroyas
• Interart Contraband: What Passed between García, Fiszt and Sand in “Le Contrebandier” / Peter Dayan
• Conscientious Translation: Liszt, Robert Franz, and the Phenomenology of Lied Transcription / David Francis Urrows
• Longing for Longing: Song as Transmutation / William P. Dougherty
• Strauss, Idomeneo and Postmodernism / Suzanne M. Lodato
• Description: A Common Potential of Words and Music? / Werner Wolf
• Whose Classical Music? Reflections on Film Adaptation / Lawrence Kramer
• Notes on Contributors.