Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Chapter 1. Introduction: Reflections on Musicking Stevens.- Chapter 2: The Enigmatic Relation between Music and Memory- Chapter 3: The Enigmatic Relation between Music and Memory.- Chapter 4: The Lifelong Lures of Birdsong.- Chapter 5: The Vibrations of Latent Music: Juxtaposing Stevens with Strauss, Mahler, Hindemith, and Debussy.- Chapter 6: Shared Aspects of a Musical Poetics: Juxtaposing Stevens with Stravinsky.- Chapter 7: Learning from Ned Rorem's Last Poems of Wallace Stevens.