Music, Words and Voice: A Reader
- Editor: Clayton, Martin
Music, Words and Voice: A Reader
- Editor: Clayton, Martin
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Music, Words and Voice: A Reader is a new and exciting interdisciplinary resource which integrates the worlds of music and literature. It is the first primary and secondary source collection of its kind to focus on the relationships between words and music, and between musical and verbal forms. Featured alongside key writings on music, speech and their relationship are previously unpublished articles and interview transcripts, and a new translation of an extract from Wagner’s theoretical works.
Designed for undergraduate students, the book uniquely:
- examines a historically and geographically diverse selection of genres from a variety of academic perspectives
- explores issues of language, musical form, performance, song, narrative, sound and action, and identity
- enables readers to connect with different histories, cultures and technologies via the linkages between musical and literary texts.
This anthology is an important contribution to the growing field of music and literature studies, and an engaging read for anyone interested in a culturally rich musical and literary inheritance.
Contents
- 1. Introduction. Martin Clayton
- Part I . Words and music
- 2. The first voices, Jean Jacques Rousseau
- 3. The beginnings of music, Charles S. Myers
- 4. The boundaries of speech and song, George List
- 5. The separation of speech and song, Jacques Derrida
- 6. Poetry and music, Richard Wagner
- 7. Oral mnemonics for the Japanese noh flute, David Hughes
- 8. Drum signalling in a West African tribe, George Herzog
- Part II . Song, text and voice
- 9. The voice as a musical instrument, Simon Frith
- 10. Working class 'country', Steven Feld, Aaron A. Fox, Thomas Porcello and David Samuels
- 11. Music, voice, language, Roland Barthes
- 12. 'Hey Jude', Tim Riley
- 13. The voice of Egypt, Virginia Danielson
- 14. Siddheshwari Devi sings Sheila Dhar
- 15. Text and performance in thumri, Peter Manuel
- Part III . Song performance and society
- 16. The meaning of song, Victor Zuckerkandl
- 17. Hazara lullabies, Hiromi Lorraine Sakata
- 18. Race, class and gender in Carmen, Susan McClary
- 19. Oh Brother where art thou? and the blues, Richard Middleton
- 20. Juju live, Christopher Waterman
- 21. Rhythm, rhyme, and rhetoric in the music of Public Enemy, Robert Walse
- 22. The Maori haka, Jan Bolwell and Keri Kaa
- Part IV . Song and ritual
- 23. Wassailing in Somerset, Kingsley Palmer and Bob Patten
- 24. The carol revival, Frank Howes
- 25. Papal legislation on sacred music, Robert F. Hayburn
- 26. Jungle paths and spirit songs, Marina Roseman
- 27. The Karelian lament, Elizabeth Tolbert
- 28. Russian wedding rituals and Stravinsky, Richard Taruskin
- 29. Lamenting in Stravinsky's Les Noces, Pieter C. Van den Toorn
- Part V . Words, music and narrative
- 30. The Sicilian cantastorie, Mauro Geraci
- 31. Song and performance, Edward Cone
- 32. The 'Bell Song', Carolyn Abbate
- 33. The little blueprint - an amplification of the meaning of 'libretto', Gordon Kalton Williams
- 34. Sondheim's technique, Stephen Sondheim and Trevor Herbert
- 35. Writing lyrics, Oscar Hammerstein
- 36. Afternoon Raag, Amit Chaudhuri
- 37. The Vinteuil Sonata, Marcel Proust List of illustrations List of sources
