Melopoiesis: Approaches to the Study of Literature and Music

by Jean-Pierre Barricelli, Calvin S. Brown (Contributor)

A collection of interdisciplinary essays, exploring areas belonging to literature and music generally as well as the uses made of music in literature and those made of literature in music. In the process, the author ranges broadly across the cultural worlds of Europe, Latin America and the Orient.

343 pages, Hardcover

First published April 2, 1991

Reviews

[Nathan]

Barricelli uses a somewhat old-fashioned analytical approach, and is not particularly accessible to those who are less familiar with his wide-ranging topics, particularly his repeated focus on Balzac. "Music as Fantasy" is a very interesting, if awkward, essay on a particularly poetic flavour of musical philosophy.