Reprint
Music and the Written Word
Edited by
October 2025
210 pages
- ISBN 978-3-7258-5319-9 (Hardback)
- ISBN 978-3-7258-5320-5 (PDF)
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This is a Reprint of the Special Issue Music and the Written Word that was published in
Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities
Summary
The Special Issue on Music and the Written Word includes eleven essays dealing in a variety of ways with the relationship between literary texts and music. It includes contributions on topics as diverse as the presence of musical notation and musical descriptions in literary texts, operatic versions of literary fiction, the potential for music to convey non-mimetic meanings, and musical devices used by literary authors and music lyricists.