Word and music studies : : essays in honor of Steven Paul Scher and on cultural identity and the musical stage / / edited by Suzanne M. Lodato, Suzanne Aspden, Walter Bernhart.

• Superior document: Word and Music Studies ; Volume 4
• Author: International Conference on Word and Music Studies
• TeilnehmendeR: Bernhart, Walter,; Aspden, Suzanne,; Lodato, Suzanne M.,; International Conference on Word and Music Studies (3rd : 2001 : University of Sydney)
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam, Netherlands : : Rodopi,, 2002.
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Series: Word and music studies ; Volume 4.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 324 pages) :; illustrations, music.

The eighteen interdisciplinary essays in this volume were presented in 2001 in Sydney, Australia, at the Third International Conference on Word and Music Studies, which was sponsored by The International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA). The conference celebrated the sixty-fifth birthday of Steven Paul Scher, arguably the central figure in word and music studies during the last thirty-five years. The first section of this volume comprises ten articles that discuss, or are methodologically based upon, Scher’s many analyses of and critical commentaries on the field, particularly on interrelationships between words and music. The authors cover such topics as semiotics, intermediality, hermeneutics, the de-essentialization of the arts, and the works of a wide range of literary figures and composers that include Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Proust, T. S. Eliot, Goethe, Hölderlin, Mann, Britten, Schubert, Schumann, and Wagner. The second section consists of a second set of papers presented at the conference that are devoted to a different area of word and music studies: cultural identity and the musical stage. Eight scholars investigate – and often problematize – widespread assumptions regarding ‘national’ and ‘cultural’ music, language, plots, and production values in musical stage works. Topics include the National Socialists’ construction of German national identity; reception-based examinations of cultural identity and various “national” opera styles; and the means by which composers, librettists, and lyricists have attempted to establish national or cultural identity through their stage works.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Suzanne M. Lodato , Suzanne Aspden and Walter Bernhart -- Masterminding Word and Music Studies: A Tribute to Steven Paul Scher / Walter Bernhart -- Intermediality Revisited: Reflections on Word and Music Relations in the Context of a General Typology of Intermediality / Werner Wolf -- Signs Taken for Wonders: Words, Music, and Performativity / Lawrence Kramer -- Metaphor and Methodology in Word and Music Studies / Eric Prieto -- Baudelaire, Wagner, Mallarmé: Romantic Aesthetics and the Word-Tone Dichotomy / Mary Breatnach -- Modernism, Melocentrism and Literary History: The Case of The Waste Land / Stephen Benson -- “Wozu [Lieder] in dürftiger Zeit” [1958]?: Britten’s Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente as a “Literary Song Cycle” / Harry E. Seelig -- Mignon in Nineteenth-Century Song: Text, Context, and Intertext / William P. Dougherty -- On the Meaning of ‘Musical’ in Proust / Peter Dayan -- Thomas Mann at the Opera / Hans Rudolf Vaget -- 1933 and the Fiasco of Cultural Identities in Music / Albrecht Riethmüller -- Arne’s Paradox: National Opera in Eighteenth-Century Britain / Suzanne Aspden -- Opera and the Imagined Nation: Weber’s Der Freischütz, Schinkel’s Neues Schauspielhaus and the Politics of German National Identity / Margaret King -- Guillaume Tell in French Opera: from Grétry to Rossini / Albert Gier -- National Opera Bearing Evidence of Swedish National and Nordic Cultural Identity: The Case of Wilhelm Peterson-Berger's Viking Opera Arnljot / Ulla-Britta Lagerroth -- Der Rosenkavalier and the Idea of Habsburg Austria / Simon Williams -- ‘A Comfortable Society’: The 1950s and Opera in Australia / Michael Halliwell -- Rock Opera – Opera on the Rocks? / Martina Elicker -- Notes on the Contributors / Suzanne M. Lodato , Suzanne Aspden and Walter Bernhart.