... on orally from performer to performer and from performer to audience, blackface minstrels sought to reassure the middle classes that they were emulating more sophisticated European musical traditions. What both the covers and the contents of post-1843 blackface sheet music reveal is that these minstrels...

...Leslie Ritchie [email protected] Resounding the Sublime: Music in English and German Literature and Aesthetic Theory, 1670–1850 . By Miranda Eva Stanyon . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2021 . x + 274 pp. Copyright © 2023 by University of Washington...

...Brian M. Reed Untwisting the Serpent: Modernism in Music, Literature, and Other Arts . By Daniel Albright. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. 395 pp. © 2002 University of Washington 2002 Reviews Unrequited Conquests: Love and Empire in the Colonial Americas. By Roland...

...?” MARTINSTEVENS Bernard M. Baruch College City Uniuersity of New York 2 The Aims oflnlerpretatzon (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976), p. 130. The Music of the Close: The Final Scenes of Shakespeare’s Tragedies. By WALTERC. FOREMAN,JR. Lexington: University Press...

...DANIEL MELNICK Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 PROUST, MUSIC, AND THE READER By DANIELMELNICK Proust’s attempt was, as purely as possible, to embody a musical aes- thetic in A lu recherche du temps perdu, and the combination...

... on Lessing by reawakening our appreciation of him as a writer of comedies, thus pm viding ballast for the more traditional conception of Lessing as a theore- tician and tragedian. EDWARDDVORETZKY University of Iowa Schiller and Music. By R...

...- standing and complex in the best of Shaw’s plays, are yet to be explored. CHARLESA. BERST University of California, Los Angeles Music and the Musician in “Jean-Christophe”: The Harmony of Contrasts. By DAVIDSICES. New Haven...

...Richard Switzer; Roger Williams Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 STENDHAL THE MUSIC CRITIC ANALYSIS OF CONCEPT AND VALIDITY OF JUDGMENT By RICHARDSWITZER arid ROGERWILLIAMS Stendhal’s views on music provide a subject which has frequently...

...Garland Ethel Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 HELL’S MARCHING MUSIC By GARLANDETHEL 550. -to the Dorian mood &c.] All accounts of the music of the ancients are very uncertain and confused. There seem to have...

.... JEAN SAKEIL Columbia University Verbal Music in German Literature. By SIEVENPAUL SCHER. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, Yale Germanic Studies, No. 2, 1968. viii -t I81 pp. $6.75; 62s. Steven Scher’s Yale dissertation is a skillful exercise in descriptive...

...- tioned one, since he occasionally uses the latter term out of chronological context. But these are the risks of thoroughness, and they are worth running. GLAUCOCAMRON Rutgers Uniuersity Music and Poetry in the Early Tudor Court. By JOHN...

...Stephen Orgel F. W. Sternfeld. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul; New York: Dover Publications, Inc., Studies in the History of Music, 1963. xxii + 334 pp. $8.00 Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 494 REVIEWS hand...

... ) reveals the shortcomings of any interpretive desire to fix the text, not simply because the story delights in Romantic instability but because it posits phenomena of music and their effects as forces that frustrate every effort to localize. What Eichendorff presents to the reader is itself a “marble...

...Herbert Lindenberger Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language . By John T. Hamilton. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. xviii + 252 pp. University of Washington 2010 Herbert Lindenberger is Avalon Foundation Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Stanford University. His...

...Peter Höyng In Beethoven’s last symphony one encounters a prototype in which music serves as a powerful catalyst for literature. It is his music that transported Schiller’s poem “An die Freude” (“Ode to Joy”) beyond its temporal, linguistic, and geographic origin. If one dubs this phenomenon “world...

...Seth Lerer Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture: Hildegard of Bingen to Chaucer . By Bruce W. Holsinger. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2001. xviii + 472 pp. © 2003 University of Washington 2003 380 MLQ September 2003...

... on the aesthetics of transgression in Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, and Arthur Symons and is working on her first book manuscript, tentatively titled Salome's Modernity: Modernism and the Aesthetics of Transgression . “The Brutal Music and the Delicate Text”? The Aesthetic Relationship between Wilde’s...

...Peter Miller Abstract Wallace Stevens titled his first poetry collection, Harmonium (1923), after a nineteenth-century musical instrument: the American reed organ. The title frames the book as a period piece, an emblem of a bygone age, but also as a musical instrument, a tool for producing new...

...Nan Cooke Carpenter Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 ∗ Paper read at the meeting of the Modern Language Association in Detroit, December 28, 1951. THE AUTHENTICITY OF RABELAIS’ FIFTH BOOK: MUSICAL CRITERIA* By NAN...

...Glyn P. Norton Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 RETROSPECTIVE TIME AND THE MUSICAL EXPERIENCE IN ROUSSEAU By GLYNP. NORTON There are few places in Rousseau’s autobiographical writings where he appears to take...