Speaking of Music

Keith Chapin is Lecturer in Music at Cardiff University. He has taught at Fordham University (New York) and at the New Zealand School of Music (Wellington). He specializes in issues of critical theory, music aesthetics, and music theory in the seventeenth through twentieth centuries and in particular on issues of counterpoint. He has been Coeditor of Eighteenth- Century Music and Associate Editor of 19th-Century Music and sits on the editorial boards of these journals. He was coeditor (with Lawrence Kramer) of Musical Meaning and Human Values (2009). Recent articles have appeared in Music & Letters, 19th-Century Music, and the International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music. Andrew H. Clark is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Fordham University. He is the author of Diderot’s Part (2008). He works and writes on literature, aesthetics, and science in the early modern period.

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Speaking of Music: A View across Disciplines and a Lexicon of Topoi Keith Chapin and Andrew H. Clark Speaking of Music Lawrence Kramer Waiting for the Death Knell: Speaking of Music (So to Speak) Laura Odello Mattheson's Words, Bach's Silence: Humanist and Professional Ways of Speaking of Music Keith Chapin Making Music Speak Andrew H. Clark Rousseau: Music, Language, and Politics Tracy B. Strong Listening to Music Lawrence M. Zbikowski Mi manca la voce: How Balzac Talks Music-or How Music Takes Place-in Massimilla Doni John T. Hamilton Speaking of Music in the Romantic Era: Dynamic and Resistant Aspects of Musical Genre Matthew Gelbart Weather Reports: Discourse and Musical Cognition Per Aage Brandt Messiaen, Deleuze, and the Birds of Proclamation Sander van Maas Parole, parole: Tautegory and the Musicology of the (Pop) Song Peter Szendy Speaking of Microsound: The Bodies of Henri Chopin Kiene Brillenburg Wurth On the Ethics of the Unspeakable Jairo Moreno Recit Recitation Recitative Jean-Luc Nancy Notes List of Contributors Index