Silence and absence in literature and music /

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Imprint:Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
©2016
Description:xi, 253 pages : music ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Word and music studies ; volume 15
Word and music studies ; 15.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10789058
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Other authors / contributors:Wolf, Werner, 1955- editor.
Bernhart, Walter, editor.
ISBN:9789004314856
9004314857
9789004314863
9004314865
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Silence and Absence in Literature and Music
  • Theoretical Aspects
  • How Does Absence Become Significant in Literature and Music?
  • Rosetta Tones: The Score as Hieroglyph
  • Historical Studies
  • The Spectacular Imagination and the Rhetoric of Absence in Armide
  • 'Ghost Writing': An Exploration of Presence and Absence in Lucia di Lammermoor
  • How to Play the Music of Absence? The Romantic Aesthetics of Longing in Schumann's Kreisleriana, Part 4
  • Mute Performances: Ekphrasis of Music, and Performative Aesthetics in Eyvind Johnson's Romantisk berätlelse
  • Silence and Music in Mallarmé's Un coup de dés
  • Silence and the Sawmill: Rainer Maria Rilke on the Nuisance of Sounding Music
  • The Inaudible Music of Dada
  • Absence, Presence and Potentiality: John Cage's 4'33" Revisited
  • The Silence of an Elephant: Luigi Nono's Al Gran Sole Carico dAmore (1975)
  • The Sound of Silence: A Talc of Two Operatic Tempests
  • Word and Music Studies: Surveying the Field
  • The Film Musical as a Subject for Word and Music Studies
  • Musical Form in the Novel: Beyond the Sonata Principle
  • Notes on Contributors