Symphony and song : the intersection of words and music / edited by Victor Kennedy and Michelle Gadpaille.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kennedy, Victor, 1953- editor.

Gadpaille, Michelle, 1953- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music and literature.

Physical Description:

vii, 312 pages : music ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.

Summary:

Symphony and Song takes its title from Coleridge's poem "Kubla Khan," and explores the relation between words and music from a variety of critical and practical perspectives. The contributors to this volume apply recent theoretical approaches ranging from the "Mozart Effect" in cognitive psychology, through stylistics and conceptual metaphor, to transtextuality in the analysis of a range of songs, song lyrics, poetry, ekphrastic prose, and instrumental music. Topics explored here include opera and pop music from around the world, Australian Aboriginal oral poetry, political instrumentalization and censorship of song lyrics, and teaching foreign language using songs. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 "The Windmills of Your Mind": Notes Towards an Aesthete of the Pop Song / Hugo Keiper Keiper, Hugo 15

Chapter 2 Mozart's Music: A Universal Language for the Human Brain? / Katarina Habe Habe, Katarina 51

Chapter 3 Kim Jong Il's Gesamtkunstwerk: Text, Music and Drama in the North Korean Opera Sea of Blood Lisa Burnett 75

Chapter 4 "Comprate il mio specifico, per poco ve lo dò": A Stylistic Analysis of Dulcamara's Rhetorical Skills in the Original Italian and in English and Slovene Translations of Donizetti's Opera L'elisir d'amove / Tomaz Onic Onic, Tomaz 95

Chapter 5 Balzac and Music: Between "Preserving Idealism" and "Transcending Sensualism" / Jan Kaznowski Kaznowski, Jan 118

Chapter 6 Beyond "Flower of Scotland": The Independence Question in Scottish Music / Kirsten Hempkin Hempkin, Kirsten 135

Chapter 7 A Romantic Singer of the Soviet Union: Individualism and Rebellion in Vladimir Vysotsky's Songs / Natalia Kaloh Vid Vid, Natalia Kaloh 152

Chapter 8 How Covers Change Musical and Linguistic Sounds: A Case Study of "Love is Blindness" by U2 and Cassandra Wilson / Mariusz Gradowski Gradowski, Mariusz, Monika Konert-Panek Konert-Panek, Monika 171

Chapter 9 "Come Rain or Come Shine": Kazuo Ishiguro and Frank Sinatra, Two Crooners in Comparison / Carla Fusco Fusco, Carla 186

Chapter 10 Sting: A Poet Who Sings, a Singer Who Reads / Andrea Stojilkov Stojilkov, Andrea 194

Chapter 11 "Had I a Song": Ivor Gurney's War Poetry / Wojciech Klepuszewski Klepuszewski, Wojciech 218

Chapter 12 Implied and Unspoken Words in Instrumental Surf Music / Victor Kennedy Kennedy, Victor 229

Chapter 13 Correlations in Structural Processing of Music Note and Speech Sound Sequences in Popular Music Writing / Klementina Jurancic Petek Petek, Klementina Jurancic 252

Chapter 14 Tracing Orality in Contemporary Indigenous Poetry in Australia / Danica Cerce Cerce, Danica 272

Chapter 15 Music and Early Language Development / Ester Vidovic Vidovic, Ester 287.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1443897612

9781443897617

OCLC:

962048591

Publisher Number:

99969642187