Music in the Words: Musical Form and Counterpoint in the Twentieth-Century Novel

by Alan Shockley (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2009

  $149.22

  There is a strong tradition of literary analyses of the musical artwork. Simply put, all musicology - any writing about music - is an attempt at making analogies between what happens within the world of sound and language itself. This study considers this analogy from the opposite perspective - attempting to structure words using musical forms.