MUSIC AND POETRY //

This bibliography serves as a guide to selected resources in the UArts Music Library that address the overlapping means by which poems and musical works are made and interpreted. The list suggests only some dimensions of the topic (it does not cover popular song lyrics, for instance), and so does not aim to be comprehensive.


REFERENCE SOURCES  ||   MUSIC IN POETRY  ||   HEROIC EPIC AND BALLADRY  || MUSIC OF POETRY (MUSICAL POETICS) || MUSICO-POETIC COMPOSITION  || POETS AND COMPOSERS 




REFERENCE SOURCES


Attridge, Derek. Poetic Rhythm: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
REF PE1505 .A86 1995

Bradley, Carol June. Index to Poetry in Music. New York: Routledge, 2003.
REF ML128 .S3B73 2003

Brandolini, Raffaele.  De music et poetica = On Music and Poetry [1513]. Trans. Ann Moyer. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2001.
REF MT5.5 .B72 2001

Emmons, Shirlee, and Wilbur Lewis. Researching the Song: A Lexicon. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
REF ML102 .S6E56 2006

Fussell, Paul. Poetic Meter and Poetic Form. Revised ed. New York: McGraw Hill, 1979.
REF PE1505 .F87 1979


Kirby-Smith, H.T. The Celestial Twins: Poetry and Music Through the Ages. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999.
REF ML3849 .K572 1999





MUSIC IN POETRY


Barry, Kevin. Language, Music, and the Sign: A Study in Aesthetics, Poetics, and Poetic Practice from Collins to Coleridge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
ML3849 .B28 1987


Brown, Calvin. Tones into Words: Musical Compositions as Subjects of Poetry. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1953.
ML3849 .B878T 1953

Hollander, John. The Untuning of the Sky: Ideas of Music in English Poetry 1500-1700. New York: W.W. Norton, 1970.
ML3849 .H746 1970





HEROIC EPIC AND BALLADRY


Constantine, Mary-Ann, and Gerald Porter. Fragments and Meaning in Traditional Song, from the Blues to the Baltic. Oxford: The British Academy, 2003.
ML3545 .C65F7 2003

Lord, Albert. The Singer of Tales. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1981.
ML3600 .L67 1981

The Oral Epic: Performance and Music. Ed. Karl Reichl. Berlin: Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung, 2000.
ML3545 .O62 2000


Reynolds, Dwight. Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes: The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995.
ML3755 .R49 1995





MUSIC OF POETRY (MUSICAL POETICS)


Edwards, Mark. Sound, Sense, and Rhythm: Listening to Greek and Latin Poetry. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. Available Online Hartman, Charles. Jazz Text: Voice and Improvisation in Poetry, Jazz, and Song. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991.
ML3849 .H37J3 1991

Hertz, David. The Tuning of the Word: The Musico-Literary Poetics of the Symbolist Movement. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1987.
ML3849 .H576T8 1987

Picking up Airs: Hearing the Music in Joyce’s Text. Ed. Ruth Bauerle. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993.
ML80 .J7P5 1993

Robson, Ernest. Poetry as a Performance Art On and Off the Page. Parker Ford: Primary Press, 1976.
ML3849 .R627 1976

Writing Aloud: The Sonics  of Language. Ed. Brandon LaBelle and Christof  Migone. Los Angeles: Errant Bodies Press, 2001.
ML3849 .W757 2001






MUSICO-POETIC COMPOSITION

Bernstein, Susan. Virtuosity of the Nineteenth Century: Performing Music and Language in Heine, Liszt, and Baudelaire. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998.
ML3849 .B485V5 1998


Dunsby, Jonathan. Making Words Sing: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Song. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
MT120 .D85M3 2004


Kramer, Lawrence. Music and Poetry: The Nineteenth Century and After. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.
ML3849 .K73M8 1984


Maniates, Maria. Mannerism in Italian Music and Culture 1530-1630. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979.
ML290.2 .M278M2 1979


Sound States: Innovative Poetics and Acoustical Technologies
. Ed. Adalaide Morris. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
ML3849 .S647 1997


Winn, James. Unsuspected Eloquence: A History of the Relations Between Poetry and Music. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981.
ML3849 .W58 1981





POETS AND COMPOSERS


Bruhn, Siglind. Musical Ekphrasis: Composers Responding to Poetry and Painting. Hillsdale, N.Y.: Pendragon Press, 2000.
ML3849 .B884M8 2000

Goethe: Musical Poet, Musical Catalyst. Ed. Lorraine Byrne. Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2004.
ML80 .G47B9 2004

Hawkins, Peter. Chanson: The French Singer-Songwriter from Aristide Bruant to the Present Day. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2000.
ML3849 .H39C4 2000

Lowenberg, Carlton. Musicians Wrestle Everywhere: Emily Dickinson & Music. Berkeley: Fallen Leaf Press, 1992.
ML134.5 .D53L6 1992

McCombie, Elizabeth. Mallarmé and Debussy: Unheard Music, Unseen Text. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
ML80 .M252M3 2003

Schoenberg and Words: The Modernist Years. Ed. Charlotte Cross and Russell Berman. New York: Garland Publishing, 2000.
ML410 .S365C7 2000

Walt Whitman and Modern Music: War, Desire, and the Trials of Nationhood. Ed. Lawrence Kramer. New York: Garland Publishing, 2000.
ML80 .W55K7 2000

Youens, Susan. Schubert’s Poets and the Making of Lieder. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
ML410 .S385Y64 1999



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