Music

‘This essay interrogates Richardson’s representation of her choice of a literary over a musical career, arguing that this choice was a matter not only of ability and opportunity, but signals a shift from public and social performance to private literary…

The current issue of Australian Literary Studies represents a significant departure for a journal that has characteristically worked within the boundaries of a single discipline, moreover one that has maintained an emphasis on Anglophone literary traditions. The articles that appear…

Arnold Schonberg and Richard Strauss were both prominent European composers who enjoyed considerable success from the time of the early twentieth century until well after World War II. Yet, the discipline of musicology has judged their styles to be so…

Recent work in adaptation studies, particularly in the wake of Linda Hutcheon's A Theory if Adaptation, has provoked a shift from a fidelity- ased critique of the adaptation-as-work to an understanding of adaptation as a creative process, often with a…

Over the course of his career, the composer Gabriel Faure (1845- 1924) witnessed a critical period of reform in regard to political, societal, and artistic developments in France. As bitter feelings seethed between the French and German nations following the…

T.S. Eliot and Igor Stravinsky are often mentioned in tandem, not only for their equivalent standing in the arts, but for perceived similarities in both their work and philosophy. Often cited as exemplars of Modernism in their respective media, they…

In her 1970 essay 'Rock Poetry, Relevance, and Revelation', Helen English comments on what she calls the 'painted pony' of the 'educational merry-go-round'. 'Too much and too often,' she writes, 'we teachers of English approach poetry through analysis. This method…

In Iran, poetry and music have been closely linked for centuries, as the earliest known forms of music produced there were melodic recitations of verse. Today in Iran, a diverse range of musicians still draws on the texts of classical…

On 2 December 1977, John Cage performed Part III of 'Empty Words' (1974-75) to an audience in Italy. Over the course of three hours, the spectators at the Teatro Lirico in Milan listened to Cage read his text verbatim, with…

The work of the novelist and the composer have great similarities. At the heart of their practice, each responds to an initial idea, or 'inspiration', and proceeds to develop it within either a grammatical or musical syntax. Accepting this basic…