Word and Music Studies

Selected Essays on Opera by Ulrich Weisstein

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The book series WORD AND MUSIC STUDIES (WMS) is the central organ of the International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA), an association founded in 1997 to promote transdisciplinary scholarly inquiry devoted to the relations between literature/verbal texts/language and music. WMA aims to provide an international forum for musicologists and literary scholars with an interest in interartlintermedial studies and in crossing cultural as well as disciplinary boundaries.

WORD AND MUSIC STUDIES will publish, generally on an annual basis, theme-orientedvolumes, documenting and critically assessing the scope, theory, methodology , and the disciplinary and institutional dimensions and prospects of the field on an international scale: conference proceedings, collections of scholarly essays, and, occasionally, monographs on pertinent individual topics as well as research reports and bibliographical and lexicographical work.

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Selected Essays on Opera by Ulrich Weisstein

Edited by Walter Bernhart

Amsterdam - New York, NY 2006

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Preface vii

Selected Essays on Opera by Ulrich Weisstein

The Libretto as Literature (1961) 3

Cocteau, Stravinsky, Brecht, and the Birth of Epic Opera (1962) .... 17

Introduction to The Essence ofOpera (1964) 33

Reflections on a Golden Style: W.H. Auden's Theory of Opera (1970) 43

"Per porle in lista": Da Ponte/Leporello's Amorou s Inventory and its Literary and Operatic Antecedents from Tirso de Molina to Giovanni Bertati (1981) 65

Educating Siegfried (1984) 91

(pariser) Farce oder wienerische Maskerade? Die franzosischen Quellen des Rosenkavalier (1987) 105

The Little Word und: Tristan und Isolde as Verbal Construct (1987) 141

Benedetto Marcellos Il Teatro alia moda: Scherz , Satire, Parodie oder tiefere Bedeutung? (1989) 171

Walter Bernhart - 9789401200639 Downloaded from Brill.com09/24/2021 04:10:47PM via free access Von Ballhom ins Bockshom gejagt: Unwillktirliche Parodie und unfreiwillige Komik in Ambroise Thomas' Mignon (1989) 201

"Die letzte Hautung". Two German Kiinstleropern of the Twentieth Century: Hans Pfitzner's Palestrina and Paul Hindemith's Mathis der Maler (1992) 229

Between Progress and Regression: The Text of Stravinsky's Opera The Rake's Progress in the Light of its Evolution (1992) 273

What is Romantic Opera? Toward a Musico-Literary Definition (1994) 301

Bose Menschen singen keine Arien: Prolegomena zu einer ungeschriebenen Geschichte der Opemzensur (1996) 337

Sources 369

Acknowledgments 371

Register of Persons and Operas Mentioned in the Text 373

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