Musical Ekphrasis:
Composers Responding to Poetry and Painting
Siglind Bruhn

Introduction

Part I — MAPPING THE TERRITORIAL BOUNDARIES  
OF MUSICAL EKPHRASIS
I-1   Music and the Sister Arts
I-2   Variations of Ekphrastic Stance
I-3   Literature and Painting Imitating Music

Part II —  FROM WORD TO SOUND:  
NON-VOCAL MUSIC RESPONDS TO A LITERARY TEXT
II-1   Maeterlinck’s Death Drama in Two Musical  Depictions
II-2   Schoenberg’s Musical Representations of Fateful Love Triangles
II-3   Elliott Carter’s American Narratives

PART III — FROM IMAGE TO SOUND:
MUSIC ON WORKS OF VISUAL ART
III-1 A Twentieth-Century Composer’s Quattroceno Triptych
III-2 Music for Blessings in Stained Glass
III-3 The Twittering Machine, Sound Symbol of Modernity

PART IV — THE FAUN AND THE VIRGIN, THE SAINT AND THE REAPER:
MULTI-TIERED TRANSMEDIALIZATIONS
IV-1 Two Pictorial Cycles and Their Mediated Paths Towards Music
IV-2 Two Mallarmé Poems and Their Way through Music to Dance


Appendix
Bibliography
Lists of Plates, Figures, and Musical Examples; Index

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