Research Catalog

Title

Song acts : writings on words and music / by Lawrence Kramer ; foreword by Richard Leppert ; edited by Walter Bernhart.

Author

Kramer, Lawrence, 1946-

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2017]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Leppert, Richard D.
• Bernhart, Walter

Description

xix, 463 pages: illustrations, music; 25 cm

Series Statement

Word and music studies ; Volume 16

Uniform Title

• Essays. Selections
• Word and music studies ; 16.

Alternative Title

Essays.

Subjects

• Musical criticism
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Opera
• Music and literature
• Songs > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Song -- The Schubert Lied: Romantic Form and Romantic Consciousness -- Performance and Social Meaning in the Lied: Schubert's Erster Verlust -- "Syringa": John Ashbery and Elliott Carter -- Decadence and Desire: The Wilhelm Meister Songs of Wolf and Schubert -- Hugo Wolf: Subjectivity in the Fin-de-Siáecle Lied -- Recognizing Schubert: Musical Subjectivity, Cultural Change, and Jane Campion's The Portrait of a Lady -- "Little Pearl Teardrops": Schubert, Schumann, and the Tremulous Body of Romantic Song -- The Harem Threshold: Turkish Music and Greek Love in Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" -- Like Falling Leaves: The Erotics of Mourning in Four Drum-Taps Settings -- Murderous Women in German Opera -- "Longindyingcall": of Music, Modernity, and the Sirens -- Recalling the Sublime: The Logic of Creation in Haydn's Creation -- Wagner's Gold Standard: Tannhèauser and the General Equivalent -- The Talking Wound and the Foolish Question: Symbolization in Parsifal -- The Great American Opera: Klinghoffer, Streetcar, and the Exception -- Modern Madrigalisms: Elliott Carter and the Aesthetics of Art Song -- The Strange Case of Beethoven's Coriolan: Romantic Aesthetics, Modern Subjectivity, and the Cult of Shakespeare -- Tolstoy's Beethoven, Beethoven's Tolstoy: The Kreutzer Sonata -- Subjectivity Unbound: Music, Language, Culture.

Call Number

JME 17-344

ISBN

• 9789004342125
• 9004342125

LCCN

2017012862

OCLC

978286785

Author

Kramer, Lawrence, 1946- author.

Title

Song acts : writings on words and music / by Lawrence Kramer ; foreword by Richard Leppert ; edited by Walter Bernhart.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2017]

Type of Content

text

notated music

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Word and music studies ; Volume 16

Word and music studies ; 16.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Leppert, Richard D., writer of foreword.

Bernhart, Walter, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Kramer, Lawrence, 1946- author. Song acts Leiden ; Boston : Brill / Rodopi, [2017] 9789004342132

Research Call Number

JME 17-344