Music In The Words Musical Form And Counterpoint In The Twentieth Century Novel

Download or read book Music in the Words written by Alan Frederick Shockley and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can a novel follow the form of a symphony and still succeed as a novel? Can musical counterpoint be mimicked by words on a page? Alan Shockley begins looking for answers by examining music's appeal for novelists and exploring two brief works, a prose fugue by Douglas Hofstadter, and a short story by Anthony Burgess modeled after a Mozart symphony. Analyses of three large, emblematic attempts at musical writing follow along with discussions on two recent brief novels. From the perspective of a composer, Shockley offers the reader fresh tools for approaching these dense and often daunting texts.