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Arts of Incompletion
Fragments in Words and Music
Series: - Word and Music Studies, Volume: 18
- Word and Music Studies Online, Volume: 18
Incompletion is an essential condition of cultural history, and particularly the idea of the fragment became a central element of Romantic art. Through its resistance to classicist ideals it continued being of high relevance to the various strands of modernist and contemporary aesthetics. The fourteen essays in this volume, based on the 2017 Stockholm conference of the International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA), for the first time address incompletion in a wide range of literary and musical texts, from Baudelaire and Flaubert through Tolstoy and Henry James to Bachmann, Jelinek and Janet Frame, from Nietzsche and Chopin through Russolo and Puccini to Rihm and Kurtà g. Two further essays deal with topical general issues in the field of word and music studies.
Contributors:
Delia da Sousa Correa, The Open University, United Kingdom.
Peter Dayan, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Ivan Delazari, HSE University in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Rolf J. Goebel, The University of Alabama, USA.
Michael Halliwell, The University of Sydney, Australia.
Christin Hoene, Maastricht University, The Netherlands.
Ruth Jacobs, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Lawrence Kramer, Fordham University, USA.
Bernhard Kuhn, Bucknell University, USA.
Margaret Miner, The University of Illinois Chicago, USA.
Beate Schirrmacher, Linnaeus University, Sweden.
David Francis Urrows, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong.
Laura Vattano, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Erik Wallrup, Stockholm University, Sweden.
Werner Wolf, University of Graz, Austria.
Contributors:
Delia da Sousa Correa, The Open University, United Kingdom.
Peter Dayan, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Ivan Delazari, HSE University in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Rolf J. Goebel, The University of Alabama, USA.
Michael Halliwell, The University of Sydney, Australia.
Christin Hoene, Maastricht University, The Netherlands.
Ruth Jacobs, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Lawrence Kramer, Fordham University, USA.
Bernhard Kuhn, Bucknell University, USA.
Margaret Miner, The University of Illinois Chicago, USA.
Beate Schirrmacher, Linnaeus University, Sweden.
David Francis Urrows, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong.
Laura Vattano, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Erik Wallrup, Stockholm University, Sweden.
Werner Wolf, University of Graz, Austria.
Walter Bernhart is retired Professor of English Literature, University of Graz; he was long-term President of the International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA) and is executive editor of Word and Music Studies (WMS). His collected essays on literature and music were published in 2015.
Axel Englund is Professor of Literature and Wallenberg Academy Fellow at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University. He is the author of Deviant Opera: Sex, Power, and Perversion on Stage (2020) and Still Songs: Music In and Around the Poetry of Paul Celan (2012).
Axel Englund is Professor of Literature and Wallenberg Academy Fellow at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University. He is the author of Deviant Opera: Sex, Power, and Perversion on Stage (2020) and Still Songs: Music In and Around the Poetry of Paul Celan (2012).
8Preface
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
1 Philosophy at the Keyboard: Nietzscheâs Music Box
âLawrence Kramer
2 Infinity in an Instant: The Paradox of Timeless Fragments in the Work of György Kurtág
âRuth Jacobs
3 Drumming Out Art: Nielsen, Huelsenbeck, and Improvised Interruption
âPeter Dayan
4 Russoloâs âIl risveglio di una città â: A Fragment for an Aesthetics of Noise
âLaura Vattano
5 The Fragmentary and the Musical: Baudelaireâs Bits and Pieces
âMargaret Miner
6 Variations on the Theme of Dying: Ingeborg Bachmann and the Music of This World
âAxel Englund
7 A Fragment of the Whole: Musical and Literary Incompletion in Kirsty Gunnâs Book The Big Music
âChristin Hoene
8 Skizzenâs Sketches, Elsâs Tweets: Streams of Incompletion in Two Musicalized Novels
âIvan Delazari
9 Singing Words and Sticky Music: Fragmentary Lyrics and Acts of Violence
âBeate Schirrmacher
10 Fragmented Music, Fragmented Minds: Janet Frameâs Faces in the Water (1961)
âDelia da Sousa Correa
11 Otto Dreselâs âLoose the sail, rest the oarâ: A Study of (In)completion
âDavid Francis Urrows
12 Operatic Fragments in Fiction and Film
âMichael Halliwell
13 The Challenges of Completing a Plurimedial Fragment: Text, Music, and Scene in Berio/Pountneyâs Ending of the Opera Turandot
âBernhard Kuhn
14 Fragment and Flow: On Wolfgang Rihmâs Dionysus Opera
âErik Wallrup
15 Sound Studies and Musical Hermeneutics: Bridging the Interdisciplinary Gap
âRolf J. Goebel
16 âMake It Oldâ: Retro Forms in Western Literature and Music since the Eighteenth Century
âWerner Wolf
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
PART 1: Arts of Incompletion: Fragments in Words and Music
SECTION 1: Musical Philosophy of Incompletion
1 Philosophy at the Keyboard: Nietzscheâs Music Box
âLawrence Kramer
2 Infinity in an Instant: The Paradox of Timeless Fragments in the Work of György Kurtág
âRuth Jacobs
SECTION 2: Fragments and Artistic Innovation
3 Drumming Out Art: Nielsen, Huelsenbeck, and Improvised Interruption
âPeter Dayan
4 Russoloâs âIl risveglio di una città â: A Fragment for an Aesthetics of Noise
âLaura Vattano
SECTION 3: Fragmentariness as a Creative Force
5 The Fragmentary and the Musical: Baudelaireâs Bits and Pieces
âMargaret Miner
6 Variations on the Theme of Dying: Ingeborg Bachmann and the Music of This World
âAxel Englund
7 A Fragment of the Whole: Musical and Literary Incompletion in Kirsty Gunnâs Book The Big Music
âChristin Hoene
8 Skizzenâs Sketches, Elsâs Tweets: Streams of Incompletion in Two Musicalized Novels
âIvan Delazari
SECTION 4: Lyric Fragments in Narratives
9 Singing Words and Sticky Music: Fragmentary Lyrics and Acts of Violence
âBeate Schirrmacher
10 Fragmented Music, Fragmented Minds: Janet Frameâs Faces in the Water (1961)
âDelia da Sousa Correa
11 Otto Dreselâs âLoose the sail, rest the oarâ: A Study of (In)completion
âDavid Francis Urrows
SECTION 5: Opera and Fragmentation
12 Operatic Fragments in Fiction and Film
âMichael Halliwell
13 The Challenges of Completing a Plurimedial Fragment: Text, Music, and Scene in Berio/Pountneyâs Ending of the Opera Turandot
âBernhard Kuhn
14 Fragment and Flow: On Wolfgang Rihmâs Dionysus Opera
âErik Wallrup
PART 2: Word and Music Studies: Surveying the Field
15 Sound Studies and Musical Hermeneutics: Bridging the Interdisciplinary Gap
âRolf J. Goebel
16 âMake It Oldâ: Retro Forms in Western Literature and Music since the Eighteenth Century
âWerner Wolf
The essays are of interest to musicologists and literary scholars, including opera lovers, as well as readers interested in the philosophy of art and word and music studies in general.