Music and Text

List of figures; List of contributors; Preface Steven Paul Scher; Acknowledgments; Part I. Institutional Dimensions and the Contexts of Listening: 1. Music and literature: the institutional dimensions John Neubauer; 2. Privileging the moment of reception: music and radio in South Africa Charles Hamm; 3. Chord and discourse: listening through the written word Peter J. Rabinowitz; Part II. Literary Models for Musical Understanding: Music, Lyric, Narrative and Metaphor: 4. Lyrical modes Paul Alpers; 5. Origins of modernism: musical structures and narrative forms Marshall Brown; 6. Metaphorical modes in nineteenth-century music criticism: image, narrative, and idea Thomas Grey; 7. Narrative archetypes and Mahler's Ninth Symphony Anthony Newcomb; Part III. Representation, Analysis and Semiotics: 8. Music and representation: the instance of Haydn's Creation Lawrence Kramer; 9. Musical analysis as stage direction David Lewin; 10. Poet's love or composer's love? Edward T. Cone; 11. The semiotic elements of a multiplanar discourse: John Harbison's setting of Michael Fried's 'Depths' Claudia Stanger; Part VI. Gender and Convention: 12. Whose life? The gendered self in Schumann's Frauenliebe songs Ruth A. Solie; 13. Operatic madness: a challenge to convention Ellen Rosand; 14. Commentary: form, reference, and ideology in musical discourse Hayden White; Index.