Music and Text : Critical Inquiries

Steven Paul Scher

ISBN 10: 0521401585 / ISBN 13: 9780521401586

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1992

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book demonstrates how musical and literary scholarship can combine forces effectively on the common ground of contemporary literary theory and interpretive practice.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Music and Text : Critical Inquiries
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521401585
• ISBN 13: 9780521401586
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 235W x 157H x 25D millimeters 235 millimeters width by 157 millimeters height by 25 millimeters depth
• Weight: 716 grams

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Synopsis

Melopoetics, the study of the multifarious relations between music and literature, has emerged in recent years as an increasingly popular field of interdisciplinary inquiry. In this volume, noted musicologists and literary critics explore diverse topics of shared concern such as literary theory as a model for musical criticism, genre theories in literature and music, the criticism and analysis of texted music and the role of aesthetic, historical and cultural understanding in concepts of text/music convergence. These fourteen essays - united here not by a common ideology but by common subject matter - demonstrate how musical and literary scholarship can combine forces effectively on the common ground of contemporary critical theory and interpretive practice. The concluding essay by interdisciplinary historian Hayden White locates this ambitious enterprise of contemplating 'music and text' in the larger context of intellectual history.

Book Description

This book of fourteen essays demonstrates how musical and literary scholarship can combine forces effectively on the common ground of contemporary literary theory and interpretive practice.