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- In 1982 Steven Paul Scher identified three general categories to help us understand the rich connections between music and literature. 1 The category of “music in literature”—which includes the literary “imitation…of the acoustic quality of music,” adaptations of “larger musical structures and patterns and the application of certain musical techniques and devices” in literary works, and “literary presentation … of existing or fictitious musical compositions” 2 —has been expanded in recent years...
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Feb 13, 2017 · In 1982 Steven Paul Scher identified three general categories to help us understand the rich connections between music and literature. 1 The category of “music in literature”—which includes the literary “imitation…of the acoustic quality of music,” adaptations of “larger musical structures and patterns and the application of certain musical tech...
- Michael Allis
- 2017
May 25, 2023 · The chapter stresses how media-specific differences between a novel and performed music, between narrative and musical form, between written words and audible sounds are bridged by fundamental transmedial characteristics such as repetition, voice, or performativity that music and literature share.
- beate.schirrmacher@lnu.se
- About The Analogues of Music Structure and Their Content in Literature
- Narrativity as A Branch of Intermediality
- Kinds of Transformations in Narrativity Theory
The intermediality of music and literature, as the presence of music in literature, can be achieved by various linguistic or literary means: the aforementioned “word music”, the analogues of form and structure and the analogues of the imaginative music content (the so-called verbal music). In “word music” musicality manifests itself as the similari...
The concept of narrativity in some aspects is relevant from the point of view of the musicality of literature , for example, as the expression of form components (especially modern forms) (e.g. open, mobile, aleatoric, moment, the so-called shapeless form or almost intangible structures, etc.). Narrativity is the branch of intermediality in a broad...
The kinds of transformations are a really significant aspect of narrativity theory, and at the same time for the perception of the processuality of composition of a literary work. The structure of dynamic growth, comprised of oppositions, can have two ways of transformation: transition as verification, and modulation. This corresponds to the Greimi...
- Rūta Brūzgienė
- rutabru1@gmail.com
- 2018
Various researchers have proposed that musical characteristics are significant in contributing to one's musical preference (Fung, 1996; LeBlanc, 1982; Prince, 1972). This article provides an overview of the research on the relationship between selected musical characteristics and musical preference. Of the musical characteristics commonly cited ...
This review session teaches students how to identify the various time periods of Western music history, through careful listening and close attention to the musical-stylistic characteristics of a given piece.
May 8, 2014 · Omer Messinger/Getty Images News/Getty Images. In some ways, music is a lot like literature. It can be pleasing, enlightening, even life-changing. A great song, like a great book, affects the...
