Self-reference in literature and music / edited by Walter Bernhart and Werner Wolf.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

International Conference on Word and Music Studies, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Bernhart, Walter.

Wolf, Werner.

Conference Name:

International Conference on Word and Music Studies (6th : 2007 : Edinburgh, Scotland)

International Conference on Word and Music Studies.

Series:

Word and music studies ; 11.

Word and music studies ; 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self in literature.

Music--Themes, motives.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (205 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York, N.Y. : Rodopi, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume contains a selection of nine essays with an interdisciplinary perspective. They were originally presented at the Sixth International Conference on Word and Music Studies, which was held at Edinburgh University in June 2007 and was organized by the International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA). The contributions to this volume focus on self-reference in various systematic, historical and intermedial ways. Self-reference – including, as a special case, metareference (the self-conscious reflection on music, literature and other medial concerns) – is explored, among others, in instrumental music by Mozart, Mahler and Satie, in the structure and performance of (meta-)operas, in operatic adaptations of drama and filmic adaptations of opera, as well as in intermedial novelistic references to music. The essays cover a historical range from the 18th century to the present and are of interest to literary and opera scholars and students, musicologists as well as all readers generally interested in medial self-reference and intermediality studies.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Metamusic? Potentials and Limits of ‘Metareference’ in Instrumental Music Theoretical Reflections and a Case Study (Mozart’s Ein musikalischer Spaß) / Werner Wolf

Mahler within Mahler Allusion as Quotation, Self-Reference, and Metareference / Robert Samuels

Medial Self-Reference between Words and Music in Erik Satie’s Piano Pieces / Peter Dayan

Opera on Opera (on Opera) Self-Referential Negotiations of a Difficult Genre / Frieder von Ammon

Christophorus, oder “Die Vision einer Oper” Franz Schreker’s Opera as a Metareferential Work / Walter Bernhart

‘The Play’s the Thing’ Self- and Metareference in Contemporary Operatic Adaptation of Twentieth-Century Drama / Michael Halliwell

Robert Carsen’s Production of Les Contes d’Hoffmann An Exercise in Theatrical Self-Reflection / Simon Williams

Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci Operatic Metareference on Stage and on Film / Bernhard Kuhn

Intermedial Reference as Metareference Hans Christian Andersen’s Musical Novels / Joachim Grage

Notes on Contributors

Volume 1.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-282-96664-2

9786612966644

90-420-3159-X

OCLC:

697640891

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789042031593 DOI