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

Music in the Words: Musical Form and Counterpoint in the Twentieth-Century Novel
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Music in the Words: Musical Form and Counterpoint in the Twentieth-Century Novel
Can a novel follow the form of a symphony and still succeed as a novel? Can musical counterpoint be mimicked by words on a page? Alan Shockley begins looking for answers by examining music's appeal for novelists and exploring two brief works, a prose fugue by Douglas Hofstadter, and a short story by Anthony Burgess modeled after a Mozart symphony. Analyses of three large, emblematic attempts at musical writing follow along with discussions on two recent brief novels. From the perspective of a composer, Shockley offers the reader fresh tools for approaching these dense and often daunting texts.

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  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publication Place: UK
  • Publication Year: 2016-11-11
  • Language: English
  • Number of Pages: 208
  • Edition: 1
  • Seller: BestBookBuddies  
  • Category: RAPS
  • Stock: 9999
  • Model: Stock
  • Weight: 0.38kg
  • SKU: Stock
  • ISBN: 9781138259805
  • Sold By: taylorandfrancis
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