Representation in western musicedited by Joshua S. Walden.
- New York : Cambridge University Press, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource (xv, 316 pages) : illustrations.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Layers of representation in nineteenth-centry genres : the case of one Brahms ballade / 'As a stranger give it welcome' : musical meanings in 1830s London / 'Music is obscure' : textless Soviet works and their phantom programmes / Representing Arlen / Video cultures : 'Bohemian Rhapsody', Wayne's World, and beyond / 'On wings of song' : representing music as agency in nineteenth-century culture / Representation and musical portraiture in the twentieth century / Representational conundrums : music and early modern dance / Allusive representations : homoerotics in Wagner's Tristan / Der Dichter spricht : self-representation in Parsifal / Memory and the leitmotif in cinema / Self-representation in music : the case of Hindemith's meta-opera Cardillac / Doing more than representing western music / The persistence of Orientalism in the postmodern operas of Adams and Sellars / Matthew Gelbart -- Roger Parker -- Marina Frolova-Walker -- Walter Frisch -- Nicholas Cook -- Thomas Grey -- Joshua S. Walden -- Davinia Caddy -- Laurence Dreyfus -- Karol Berger -- Giorgio Biancorosso -- Hermann Danuser -- Rachel Beckles Willson -- W. Anthony Sheppard.
9781107314320
Music--Philosophy and aesthetics. Music--Social aspects. Mental representation.