Song Acts : Writings on Words and Music.

Intro -- Song Acts: Writings on Words and Music -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Song [1984/2016] -- 2 The Schubert Lied: Romantic Form and Romantic Consciousness [1986/2016] -- 3 Performance and Social Meaning in the Lied: Schubert's Erster Verlust [1994] -- 4 "Syringa": John Ashbery and Elliott Carter [1980/1984] -- 5 Decadence and Desire: The Wilhelm Meister Songs of Wolf and Schubert [1987] -- 6 Hugo Wolf: Subjectivity in the Fin-de-Siècle Lied [1996/2009] -- 7 Recognizing Schubert: Musical Subjectivity, Cultural Change, and Jane Campion's The Portrait of a Lady [2002] -- 8 "Little Pearl Teardrops": Schubert, Schumann, and the Tremulous Body of Romantic Song [2002] -- 9 The Harem Threshold: Turkish Music and Greek Love in Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" [1998] -- 10 Like Falling Leaves: The Erotics of Mourning in Four Drum-Taps Settings [2002] -- 11 Murderous Women in German Opera [2008] -- 12 "Longindyingcall": of Music, Modernity, and the Sirens [2006] -- 13 Recalling the Sublime: The Logic of Creation in Haydn's Creation [2009] -- 14 Wagner's Gold Standard: Tannhäuser and the General Equivalent [2010] -- 15 The Talking Wound and the Foolish Question: Symbolization in Parsifal [2006] -- 16 The Great American Opera: Klinghoffer, Streetcar, and the Exception [2007] -- 17 Modern Madrigalisms: Elliott Carter and the Aesthetics of Art Song [2014] -- Appendix: Unsung Words and Music -- 18 The Strange Case of Beethoven's Coriolan: Romantic Aesthetics, Modern Subjectivity, and the Cult of Shakespeare [1995] -- 19 Tolstoy's Beethoven, Beethoven's Tolstoy: The Kreutzer Sonata [1997/2006] -- 20 Subjectivity Unbound: Music, Language, Culture [2003/2012].

This volume collects twenty of Lawrence Kramer's seminal writings--some significantly revised for republication--on art song (especially Lieder), opera, and word-music relationships. Topics include text-setting, subjectivity, the sublime, mourning, sexuality, decadence, orientalism, the body, Romanticism, modernity, and cultural change.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.