Music and its Narrative Potential / / edited by Carolien Van Nerom, Ann Peeters, Bart Bouckaert.

"Music and its Narrative Potential" is a book about musical stories. It is a collection of thoughts on how music evokes narratives through its own medium-specific strategies. This book is a versatile consideration of narratives expressed through music. There are several threads that flow a...

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Superior document:Schöningh and Fink Literature and Culture Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024
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Place / Publishing House:Paderborn : : Ferdinand Schöningh, Brill | Fink,, 2024.
©2024
Year of Publication:2024
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Schöningh and Fink Literature and Culture Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
Physical Description:1 online resource (335 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Section 1 Food for Thought: Theory and/in Practice
  • 1 The Only Truly Musical Narrative Is an Autobiographical Quest
  • 2 From Absolute Music to Sound Experience: On Post-Classical Music and Horizontal Listening
  • 3 The Question of Narrativity in Instrumental Music, and the Role of Repetition
  • 4 Musical Minimalism and the Powers of the False: Gilles Deleuze's Falsifying Narration in Two Pages (for Steve Reich?) (1968) by Philip Glass
  • SECTION 2 Music and the Stage: Narratives in Opera and Musical
  • 5 When Music Becomes the Plot: Narrative Strategies in Tom Johnson's Minimalist Metaoperas
  • 6 Narrativity in Minimalist Operas by Philip Glass: Impact of the Source Text and of Postminimalist Composition Strategies
  • 7 Stories of Nobody: Narrativity in Luciano Berio's Late Theater and the Case of Outis
  • 8 Queering the Musical Theater Tradition: Narrative Metareferentiality in Michael R. Jackson's A Strange Loop
  • SECTION 3 Narrativizing Music Through Different Media
  • 9 Musical Stimulacra Are Narrative(s): Music beyond Sound in Concert Program Notes
  • 10 Music and Narrative in Art Exhibition Audio Guides: "Beckmann &amp
  • Amerika"
  • 11 Non-Narrativity and Parody in Samuel Beckett's Radio Play Words and Music
  • SECTION 4 The Limits of Narrativity: Storytelling Through Minimalist Music
  • 12 Layers, Textures, and Structures: Towards a Theory of Narrative Space in Post-Minimal Music
  • 13 "Your Music Tells Stories Now": Sorting Out Narrativity in Steve Reich's Plastic Haircut
  • 14 Indexing a Narrative: Gestural Patterns, Plentitude, and Cultural Metonymy in Steve Reich's Music for Pieces of Wood
  • List of Contributors.