Music and narrative since 1900 / edited by Michael L. Klein and Nicholas Reyland.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

-- Musical story / Michael L. Klein -- Negation and negotiation : plotting narrative through literature and music from modernism to postmodernism / Nicholas Reyland -- Narrative engagement with twentieth-century music : possibilities and limits / Byron Almén and Robert S. Hatten -- Optional extra? : contextualizing narrative in the critical interpretation of post-tonal composition / Arnold Whittall -- Archetypes of initiation and static temporality in contemporary opera : works of François-Bernard Mâche, Pascal Dusapin, and Gualtiero Dazzi / Márta Grabócz -- Agency, determinism, focal time frames, and processive minimalist music / Joshua Banks Mailman -- Musical prose and musical narrativity in the Fin de siècle / Elisheva Rigbi -- Narrative nostalgia : modern art music off the rails / Lawrence Kramer -- Agency effects in the instrumental drama of Musgrave and Birtwistle / Philip Rupprecht -- Narrativities in the music of Thomas Adès : the piano quintet and Brahms / Emma Gallon -- Britten's Serenade and the politico-moral crises of the wartime conjuncture : hermeneutic and narrative notes on the "Nocturne" / Sumanth Gopinath -- Identity, time, and narrative in three songs about AIDS by the Pet Shop Boys / Fred Everett Maus -- A story of violence : a guitar improvisation as a narrative about embodied listening / Vincent Meelberg -- Ives and the now / Matthew McDonald -- Narrativity, descriptivity, and secondary parameters : ecstasy enacted in Salvatore Sciarrino's Infinito nero / Rebecca Leydon -- The tropes of desire and Jouissance in Kaija Saariaho's L'amour de loin / Yayoi Uno Everett -- Expressive doubling and the narrative of rebirth in Shostakovich's String quartet numbers 3, opus 73 / Sarah Reichardt Ellis -- Afterlife of an archetype : Prokofiev and the art of subversion / Gregory Karl -- Identity formation in Webern's Six pieces for large orchestra, opus 6 / Alan Street