Essays on literature and music (1967-2004) / / Steven P. Scher, edited by Walter Bernhart, Werner Wolf.

• Superior document: Word and Music Studies ; 5
• VerfasserIn: Scher, Steven P.
• TeilnehmendeR: Bernhart, Walter,; Wolf, Werner, 1955-
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam, Netherlands : : Rodopi,, [2004]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Series: Word and Music Studies ; 5.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

The present volume meets a frequently expressed demand as it is the first collection of all the relevant essays and articles which Steven Paul Scher has written on Literature and Music over a period of almost forty years in the field of Word and Music Studies. Scher, The Daniel Webster Professor of...

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Walter BERNHART: Masterminding Word and Music Studies: A Tribute to Steven Paul Scher
• Essays on Literature and Music by Steven Paul Scher
• Thomas Mann's 'Verbal Score': Adrian Leverkühn's Symbolic Confession (1967)
• Notes Toward a Theory of Verbal Music (1970)
• How Meaningful is 'Musical' in Literary Criticism? (1972)
• Brecht's Die sieben Todsünden der Kleinbürger: Emblematic Structure as Epic Spectacle (1974)
• "O Wort, du Wort, das mir fehlt!": Der Realismusbegriff in der Musik (1975)
• Kreativität als Selbstüberwindung: Thomas Manns permanente 'Wagner-Krise' (1976)
• Temporality and Mediation: W. H. Wackenroder and E. T. A. Hoffmann as Literary Historicists of Music (1976)
• Carl Maria von Weber's Tonkünstlers Leben: The Composer as Novelist? (1978)
• Beethoven and the Word: Literary Affinity or Artistic Necessity? (1980/81)
• Comparing Literature and Music: Current Trends and Prospects in Critical Theory and Methodology (1981)
• Literature and Music (1982)
• Theory in Literature, Analysis in Music: What Next? (1983)
• Comparing Poetry and Music: Beethoven's Goethe Lieder as Composed Reading (1986)
• The Strauss-Hofmannsthal Operatic Experiment: Tradition, Modernity, or Avant-Garde? (1987)
• E. T. A. Hoffmann: Der Dichter als Komponist (1987)
• Mignon in Music (1988)
• The German Lied: A Genre and Its European Reception (1990)
• "Tutto nel mondo è burla": Humor in Music? (1991)
• Liszt and Literature (1991)
• Musicopoetics or Melomania: Is There a Theory behind Music in German Literature? (1992)
• Hoffmann, Weber, Wagner: The Birth of Romantic Opera from the Spirit of Literature? (1992)
• Der Opernkomponist Hoffmann und das europäische Musiktheater seiner Zeit (1993)
• Da Ponte und Mozart: Wort und Ton in Don Giovanni (1994)
• Acoustic Experiment as Ephemeral Spectacle?: Musical Futurism, Dada, Cage, and the Talking Heads (1994)
• Mozart - an Epistolary Aesthetician? (1997)
• E. T. A. Hoffmanns "Der Dichter und der Komponist": Manifest romantischer Librettologie oder melopoetische Erzählfiktion? (1998)
• Melopoetics Revisited: Reflections on Theorizing Word and Music Studies (1999)
• Judith Weir's Heaven Ablaze in His Breast: A Postmodern Dance Opera Based on E. T. A. Hoffmann's "The Sandman" (2000/2004)
• Eine Berlinische Geschichte: Hoffmanns Brautwahl in Busonis Opernbuch? (2004)
• Sources
• Acknowledgements.