Representation in Western Music

Contents

• Preface Joshua S. Walden;
• Part I . Representation and the Interpretation of Musical Meaning:
• 1. Layers of representation in nineteenth-century genres: the case of one Brahms Ballade Matthew Gelbart;
• 2. 'As a stranger give it welcome': musical meanings in 1830s London Roger Parker;
• 3. 'Music is obscure': textless Soviet works and their phantom programmes Marina Frolova-Walker;
• 4. Representing Arlen Walter Frisch;
• 5. Video cultures: 'Bohemian Rhapsody', Wayne's World, and beyond Nicholas Cook;
• Part II . Sound and Visual Representations: Music, Painting, and Dance:
• 6. 'On wings of song': representing music as agency in nineteenth-century culture Thomas Grey;
• 7. Representation and musical portraiture in the twentieth century Joshua S. Walden;
• 8. Representational conundrums: music and early modern dance Davinia Caddy;
• Part III . Musical Representations in Opera and Cinema:
• 9. Allusive representations: homoerotics in Wagner's Tristan Laurence Dreyfus;
• 10. Der Dichter spricht: self-representation in Parsifal Karol Berger;
• 11. Memory and the leitmotif in cinema Giorgio Biancorosso;
• 12. Self-representation in music: the case of Hindemith's meta-opera Cardillac Hermann Danuser, translated by J. Bradford Robinson;
• Part IV . Music, Representation, and the Concepts of East and West:
• 13. Doing more than representing Western music Rachel Beckles Willson;
• 14. The persistence of Orientalism in the postmodern operas of Adams and Sellars W. Anthony Sheppard; Afterword: what else? Richard Taruskin.