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On Voice.
The essays collected here raise a simple but rarely asked question: just what, exactly, is voice? From this founding question, many others proliferate: Is voice an animal category, as Aristotle thought? Or is it distinctively human? Is it essentially related to language? To music? To song and singin...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Editions Rodopi,
2014.
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| Colección: | Word and music studies ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; On Voice: An Introduction; Her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty: Reflections on Voice in the Operatic Adaptations of The Great Gatsby and Sophie's Choice; The Vocal Persona of Jussi Björling; The Voice of/in Opera; Resonances and Dissonances: Listening to Waltraud Meier's Envoicing of Isolde; From Vox alias Phoné to Voice:A Few Terminological Observations; Indefiniteness, Ethereality, and Unarticulated Meaning:Breath, Music and the Problem of 'Voice' in Poe's Ligeia
- Voice and Vocation in the Novels of George Eliot.
- Voice and Presence in Music and Literature:Virginia Woolf's The WavesThe Mahlerian Mask:On Heine's Voice and Visage in Post-War Germany; Voice and Voices in Oratorios:On Sacred and Other Voices; Schubert's Instrumental Voice:Vocality in Melodic Construction in the Late Works; Composing Voices and Ravel's L'Heure espagnole; La Castrata and the Voices in My Head; Homer Simpson's ""Doh!"":Singsong between Music and Speech; Notes on Contributors.