Essays on Music and the Spoken Word and on Surveying the Field

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Essays on Music and the Spoken Word and on Surveying the Field is written by Suzanne M. Lodato and published by Rodopi. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9042018976 (ISBN 10) and 9789042018976 (ISBN 13).

The nine interdisciplinary essays in this volume were presented in 2003 in Berlin at the Fourth International Conference on Word and Music Studies, which was sponsored by The International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA). The nine articles in this volume cover two areas: Surveying the Field and Music and the Spoken Word. Topics include postmodernism, philosophy, German literary modernism, opera, film, the Lied, radio plays, and verbal counterpoint. They cover the works of such philosophers, critics, literary figures, and composers as Argento, Beckett, Deleuze, Guattari, Feldman, Glenn Gould, Nietzsche, Schubert, Strauss, Wagner, and Wolfram. Three films are discussed: Casablanca, The Fisher King, and Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould.