Music into fiction : composers writing, compositions imitated / Theodore Ziolkowski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ziolkowski, Theodore, author.

Series:

Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture

Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music and literature.

Musicians as authors.

Physical Description:

xi, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2017.

Summary:

"This book deals with three aspects that have been neglected in the burgeoning field of music and literature. The "First Movement" of the book considers writers from German Romanticism to the present who, like Robert Schumann, first saw themselves as writers before they turned to composition, or, like E. T. A. Hoffmann and Anthony Burgess, sought careers in music before becoming writers. It also considers the few operatic composers, such as Richard Wagner and Arnold Schoenberg, who wrote their own libretti. The "Second Movement" turns to literary works based specifically on musical compositions. This group includes, first and more generally, prose works whose author chose a specific musical form such as sonata or fugue as an organizational model. And second, it includes novels based structurally or thematically on specific compositions, such as Bach's Goldberg Variations. The "Finale" concludes with a unique case: efforts by modern composers to render musically the compositions described in detail by Thomas Mann in his novel Doktor Faustus. This book, which addresses itself to readers interested generally in music and literature and is written in a reader-friendly style, draws attention to unexplored dimensions of the music-literature relationship and to the sometimes unrecognized talents of certain writers and composers."-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Preface

Prelude: Introduction. First movement: Composers writing. Weber and Hoffmann

Berlioz and Schumann

Wagner

Transition: Nietzsche and the post-Wagnerians. Burgess

Second movement: compositions imitated. Compositional forms

Specific compositions

Finale: composers setting fictional compositions. Leverkuhn's compositions

Coda: Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-242) and index.

ISBN:

9781571139733

1571139737

OCLC:

956688605