Words and Notes in the Long Nineteenth Century

Phyllis Weliver, Katharine Ellis

A new wave of scholarship inspired by the ways the writers and musicians of the long nineteenth century themselves approached the relationship between music and words.

Introduction: Approaches to Word-Music Studies of the Long Nineteenth Century - Phyllis Weliver and Katharine EllisLosing Sense, Making Music: What Erik Satie's Music and Poetry do for Each Other - Peter DayanNot Listening in Paris: Critical and Fictional Lapses of Attention at the Opera - Cormac NewarkNew Expectations: How to Listen to Sonata Form, 1800-1860 - Jon-Tomas GodinThe Science of Musical Memory: Vernon Lee and the Remembrance of Sounds Past - Shafquat TowheedMusical Listening in The Mysteries of Udolpho - Noelle ChaoKatherine Mansfield and Nineteenth-Century Musicality - Delia da Sousa CorreaE.T.A. Hoffmann Beyond the 'Paradigm Shift': Music and Irony in the Novellas 1815-1819Fiction as Musical Critique: Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out and the Case of Wagner - Emma SuttonThéodore de Banville and the Mysteries of Song - David EvansPerforming Poetry as Music: How Composers Accept Baudelaire's Invitation to Song - Helen AbbottThe Grit in the Oyster, or How to Quarrel with a Poet - Susan YouensAfterword: Wording Notes: Musical Marginalia in the Guise of an Afterword - Annegret Fauser