GHU Logo
The Great Heights University Library
Academic discovery, digital access, and research support

Literature and musical adaptation / (Record no. 22541)

MARC details
000 -LEADER
fixed length control field 04143cam a2200469Ii 4500
001 - CONTROL NUMBER
control field BRILL9789004333994
003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER
control field nllekb
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field 20260610105049.0
007 - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION FIXED FIELD--GENERAL INFORMATION
fixed length control field cr un uuuua
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
fixed length control field 031020s2002 ne a sb 000 0 eng d
010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2003502684
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9789004333994
Qualifying information (electronic book)
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
Canceled/invalid ISBN 9789042008120
Qualifying information (print)
024 7# - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER
Standard number or code 10.1163/9789004333994
Source of number or code DOI
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number (OCoLC)50780558
Canceled/invalid control number (OCoLC)228123539
-- (OCoLC)711049365
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency NL-LeKB
Transcribing agency NL-LeKB
Description conventions rda
050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number ML3849
Item number .L58 2002
072 #7 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE
Subject category code ML
Source lcco
072 #7 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE
Subject category code JFC
Source bicssc
072 #7 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE
Subject category code SOC022000
Source bisacsh
082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 780/.08
Edition information 22
245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Literature and musical adaptation /
Statement of responsibility, etc. edited by Michael J. Meyer.
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture Amsterdam ;
-- New York :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Rodopi,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 2002.
300 ## - online resource
Extent 1 online resource (221 pages) :
Other physical details illustrations.
336 ## - CONTENT TYPE
Content type term text
Content type code txt
Source rdacontent
337 ## - MEDIA TYPE
Media type term computer
Media type code c
Source rdamedia
338 ## - CARRIER TYPE
Carrier type term online resource
Source rdacarrier
490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Rodopi perspectives on modern literature ;
Volume/sequential designation 26
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references.
505 00 - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Title Preliminary Material /
Statement of responsibility Michael J. Meyer --
Title Introduction /
Statement of responsibility Michael J. Meyer --
Title “‘A Song not Without Words’: Singing Billy Budd ” /
Statement of responsibility Michael J. Meyer --
Title Music in The Great Gatsby and The Great Gatsby as Music /
Statement of responsibility Michael J. Meyer --
Title Henry Purcell and Gerard Manley Hopkins: Two Explorations of Identity /
Statement of responsibility Michael J. Meyer --
Title “Something lies beyond the Scene [seen]” of Façade: Sitwell, Walton and Kristeva’s Semiotic /
Statement of responsibility Michael J. Meyer --
Title “Dann Sang er”: Das Marienleben from Rilke to Hindemith /
Statement of responsibility Michael J. Meyer --
Title Pasternak and Tchaikovsky: Musical Echoes in Pasternak’s Blind Beauty /
Statement of responsibility Michael J. Meyer --
Title The Hidden Life: Benjamin Britten’s Homoerotic Reading of Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw /
Statement of responsibility Michael J. Meyer --
Title Musical Interpretations of Modernist Literature /
Statement of responsibility Michael J. Meyer --
Title When Performance Ends: Musicians as Writers /
Statement of responsibility Michael J. Meyer --
Title Celan’s “Todesfuge”: The Musical Dimension of a Verbal Composition /
Statement of responsibility Michael J. Meyer.
506 ## - RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS NOTE
Terms governing access Available to subscribing member institutions only.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. It can safely be said that when literary texts are utilized or adapted by a musician to create a new work of art, it is seldom that a diminished or lessened product results. Rather, such a merging usually enlarges and enhances both text and tune, perhaps significantly changing the message of the original. Discovering exactly what the new form has to offer and how it relates to the text or melody that preceded it is often a daunting task, requiring a close examination of both the author’s and the composer’s intent. The essays in this collection offer an analysis of several adaptations, some successful, some not so successful, and attempt to assess just what the musicians or writers have modified or changed from to the original as they re-form it into an altogether different media. Ranging from Pasternak’s appropriation of Tchaikovsky to Britten’s operatic versions of Billy Budd and the Turn of the Screw, from Celan’s use of fugal technique in his “Todesfuge” to the way that the musicianship of several women writers found voice in their writing, a broad spectrum of collaborations is examined. As readers examine an author’s respect for a long dead musician (Hopkins’ admiration of Purcell) or as they discover how John Harbison worked to transform Fitzgerald’s musicality in The Great Gatsby, it will be evident that musical adaptations often provide a richness that the originals did not possess and that the potential for greatness is heightened when the arts intersect.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Music and literature.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Libretto.
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Libretto.
Source of heading or term fast
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Music and literature.
Source of heading or term fast
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Meyer, Michael J.,
Dates associated with a name 1943-
776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY
Relationship information Online version:
Title Literature and musical adaptation.
Place, publisher, and date of publication Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2002
Record control number (OCoLC)605646481
830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE
Uniform title Rodopi Perspectives on Modern Literature
Volume/sequential designation 26.
856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Public note DOI:
Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004333994">http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004333994</a>

No items available.