Music and narrative since 1900

Abstract

Part 1. Framing the Narrative 1. Musical Story 2. Negation and Negotiation: Plotting Narrative through Literature and Music from Modernism to Postmodernism Part 2. Theorizing Modern Musical Narrative 3. Narrative Engagement with Twentieth-Century Music: Possibilities and Limits 4. Optional Extra? Contextualizing Narrative in the Critical Interpretation of Post-tonal Composition 5. Archetypes of Initiation and Static Temporality in Contemporary Opera: Works of Francois-Bernard Mache, Pascal Dusapin, and Gualtiero Dazzi 6. Agency, Determinism, Focal Time Frames, and Processive Minimalist Music 7. Musical Prose and Musical Narrativity in the Fin de Siecle 8. Narrative Nostalgia: Modern Art Music off the Rails Part 3. Interpreting Modern Musical Narrative 9. Agency Effects in the Instrumental Drama of Musgrave and Birtwistle Rupprecht 10. Narrativities in the Music of Thomas Ades: The Piano Quintet and Brahms 11. Britten's Serenade and the Politico-Moral Crises of the Wartime Conjuncture: Hermeneutic and Narrative Notes on the Nocturne 12. Identity, Time, and Narrative in Three Songs about AIDS by the Pet Shop Boys 13. A Story of Violence: A Guitar Improvisation as a Narrative about Embodied Listening 14. Ives and the Now 15. Narrativity, Descriptivity, and Secondary Parameters: Ecstasy Enacted in Salvatore Sciarrino's Infinito nero 16. The Tropes of Desire and Jouissance in Kaija Saariaho's L'amour de loin 17. Expressive Doubling and the Narrative of Rebirth in Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 3, op. 73 18. Afterlife of an Archetype: Prokofiev and the Art of Subversion 19. Identity Formation in Webern's Six Pieces for Large Orchestra, op. 6 List of Contributors Index