This volume contains a selection of nine essays with an interdisciplinary perspective. They were originally presented at the Sixth International Conference on Word and Music Studies, which was held at Edinburgh University in June 2007 and was organized by the International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA). The contributions to this volume focus on self-reference in various systematic, historical and intermedial ways. Self-reference - including, as a special case, metareference (the self-conscious reflection on music, literature and other medial concerns) - is explored, among others
Metamusic? Potentials and limits of 'metareference' in instrumental music : theoretical reflections and a case study (Mozart's Ein musikalischer Spass) / Werner Wolf -- Mahler within Mahler : allusion as quotation, self-reference, and metareference / Robert Samuels -- Medial self-reference between words and music in Erik Satie's piano pieces / Peter Dayan -- Opera on opera (on opera) : self-referential negotiations of a difficult genre / Frieder von Ammon -- Christophorus, oder "Die Vision einer Oper" : Franz Schreker's opera as a metareferential work / Walter Bernhart -- 'The play's the thing' : self- and metareference in contemporary operatic adaptation of twentieth-century drama / Michael Halliwell -- Robert Carsen's production of Les contes d'Hoffmann : an exercise in theatrical self-reflection / Simon Williams -- Leoncavallo's Pagliacci : operatic metareference on stage and on film / Bernhard Kuhn -- Intermedial reference as metareference : Hans Christian Andersen's musical novels / Joachim Grage
