Listening to Iris Murdoch = music, s...
Dooley, Gillian.

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    正題名/作者: Listening to Iris Murdoch/ by Gillian Dooley.
    其他題名: music, sounds, and silences /
    作者: Dooley, Gillian.
    出版者: Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2022.,
    面頁冊數: xviii, 241 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
    內容註: 1. Chapter 1 Listening to Iris Murdoch -- Introduction -- Music and sound in fiction: a review of the field -- Music in Murdoch's life -- Discussions of music in Murdoch's philosophy -- The sound-worlds in Murdoch's fiction -- Part I - Music -- 2. Chapter 2 'The music is too painful': Music as character and atmosphere -- Introduction -- 'Awaken, my blackbird': Music in The unicorn -- 'Like a breathless enchanted girl': Music in The red and the green -- The swan princess: Music in The time of the angels -- 'The concourse of sweet sounds': Music in The nice and the good -- Conclusion -- 3. Chapter 3 'The point at which flesh and spirit most joyfully meet': Singers and singing -- Introduction -- 'Che cosa e amor?': Singing in The sea, the sea -- Singing as exclusion in The message to the planet -- 'Never to sing again? Never?': Singing in The philosopher's pupil (1983) -- Conclusion -- 4. Chapter 4 Musical women and unmusical men -- Introduction: 'Of course they never let the women sing.' -- Quiet women: The good apprentice -- Silent pianos -- No women composers -- Opera, intimacy, sexuality and androgyny in A fairly honourable defeat -- Conclusion -- Part II - Silence and sound -- 5. Chapter 5 'Different voices, different discourses': Voices and other human sounds -- Introduction: Serious noticing -- 'The long search for words': Something special -- 'The quiet sound of voices': The sandcastle -- 'Intolerable with menace': Henry and Cato -- 'A mechanical litany': The good apprentice -- Conclusion -- 6. Chapter 6 'Like a clarity under a mist': Ambient noise and silence, dreamscapes and atmosphere -- Introduction -- The sacred and profane love machine: The drama of silence -- The black prince and Under the net: Silence and art -- Bruno's dream: Synaesthesia and perception -- Nuns and soldiers -- Conclusion -- Part III - Settings -- 7. Chapter 7 'Just bring me the composers': Musical settings of Iris Murdoch's words -- Introduction -- The servants - opera: music by William Mathias, libretto by Iris Murdoch -- The round horizon, cantata in five parts: music by Christopher Bochmann, words by Iris Murdoch -- The one alone: Radio play with music by Gary Carpenter -- A year of birds: Song cycle for soprano and orchestra by Malcolm Williamson -- Forgive me. In memoriam Iris Murdoch, 1919-1999, for unaccompanied vocal ensemble (SATB) by Paul Crabtree -- Inspired by Iris: Paul Hullah and Kent Wennman -- Paul Hullah, All the names under the sun and Home -- Kent Wennman, A Jerusalem conversation and The thinker and the feeling one -- Conclusion: Iris Murdoch set to music -- Coda Sound, music, silence and listening -- Part IV - The music -- Appendix 1 Music mentioned in Murdoch's fiction -- Classical composers -- Vocal music -- Chronological list of music mentioned in Murdoch's fiction -- Appendix 2 Items in Iris Murdoch's Oxford music collection held at Kingston University Library -- Iris Murdoch's manuscript notebooks of songs -- Anthologies, collections, scores etc -- Single works.
    Contained By: Springer Nature eBook
    標題: English fiction - History and criticism. - 20th century -
    電子資源: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-00860-3
    ISBN: 9783031008603
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