Literature and musical adaptation / / Michael J. Meyer.

It can safely be said that when literary texts are utilized or adapted by a musician to create a new work of art, it is seldom that a diminished or lessened product results. Rather, such a merging usually enlarges and enhances both text and tune, perhaps significantly changing the message of the ori...

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Superior document:Rodopi Perspectives on Modern Literature ; 26
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam, Netherlands : : Rodopi,, [2002]
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Year of Publication:2002
Language:English
Series:Rodopi perspectives on modern literature ; 26.
Physical Description:1 online resource (221 pages) :; illustrations.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Michael J. Meyer
  • Introduction / Michael J. Meyer
  • “‘A Song not Without Words’: Singing Billy Budd ” / Michael J. Meyer
  • Music in The Great Gatsby and The Great Gatsby as Music / Michael J. Meyer
  • Henry Purcell and Gerard Manley Hopkins: Two Explorations of Identity / Michael J. Meyer
  • “Something lies beyond the Scene [seen]” of Façade: Sitwell, Walton and Kristeva’s Semiotic / Michael J. Meyer
  • “Dann Sang er”: Das Marienleben from Rilke to Hindemith / Michael J. Meyer
  • Pasternak and Tchaikovsky: Musical Echoes in Pasternak’s Blind Beauty / Michael J. Meyer
  • The Hidden Life: Benjamin Britten’s Homoerotic Reading of Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw / Michael J. Meyer
  • Musical Interpretations of Modernist Literature / Michael J. Meyer
  • When Performance Ends: Musicians as Writers / Michael J. Meyer
  • Celan’s “Todesfuge”: The Musical Dimension of a Verbal Composition / Michael J. Meyer.