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.

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...

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Superior document:Word and Music Studies ; Volume 4
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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.
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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.