Book 2017
Music in the Words
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Group
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017
- English literature
- History and criticism
- Music and literature
- American literature
- Music
- Philosophy and aesthetics
- Littérature anglaise
- Histoire et critique
There is a strong tradition of literary analyses of the musical artwork. Simply put, musicology - any writing about music - is an attempt at making analogies between what happens within the world of sound and language itself. This document considers this analogy from the opposite perspective : authors attempting to structure words using musical forms and techniques.