Music, Text and Translation

By Helen Julia Minors

Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: December 2012

ISBN: 9781441189271

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Expanding the notion of translation, this book specifically focuses on
the transferences between music and text. The concept of translation
is often limited solely to language transfer. It is, however, a process
occurring within and around most forms of artistic expression. Music, considered a language in its own right, often refers to text
discourse and other art forms. In translation, this referential
relationship must be translated too.

How is music affected by
text translation? How does music influence the translation of the text
it sets? How is the sense of both the text and the music transferred in
the translation process?

Combining theory with practice, the book
questions the process and role translation has to play in a musical
context. It provides a range of case studies across interdisciplinary
fields. It is the first collection on music in translation that is not
restricted to one discipline, including explorations of opera libretti,
surtitling, art song, musicals, poetry, painting, sculpture and
biography, alongside looking at issues of accessibility.