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Tables of Contents for Untwisting the Serpent
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Illustrations
ix
List of Musical Examples
xi
Acknowledgments
xiii
Introduction: Laocoon Revisited
5
3
Lessing and Horace
8
2
Babbitt and Greenberg
10
4
Adorno
14
4
Apollo and Marsyas
18
3
Kokoschka's Morder, Hoffnung der Frauen
21
4
Hindemith's Morder, Hoffnung der Frauen
25
2
Aesthetic Paradoxes
27
2
Modernism, Historical and Transhistorical
29
8
Part One: Figures of Consonance among the Arts
Hieroglyph
37
26
Plotinus
39
2
Mozart's The Magic Flute
41
4
Perlocution and Epigram: Liszt and Wagner
45
3
Rapee's Dictionary of Silent Film Music and the Leitmotiv
48
3
Wagner and the Origin of Music
51
5
Eye Music
56
1
Stravinsky's Renard and Prokofiev's Semyon Kotko
57
6
Ideogram
63
5
Pound, Fenollosa, and the Chinese Character
64
1
Imagism
65
3
Noh
68
33
Pound, Fenollosa, Yeats, and Michio Ito
69
4
Unnatural Nature: Kleist and Mallarme
73
2
Structure of the Noh Play
75
1
Nishikigi
76
2
Pound's Tristan
78
4
The Pisan Cantos as a Noh Play
82
2
The Pisan Cantos as an Opera
84
4
Britten's Curlew River and Sumidagawa
88
13
Gestus
101
37
Dalcroze Exercises
101
3
Nijinsky, Nijinska, and The Rite of Spring
104
4
Lessing's Theory of Gestus
108
1
Rousseau and Gesticulation
109
1
Weill's Theory of Gestus
110
8
Brecht's Theory of Gestus
118
4
Farragoes: Mann ist Mann and The Threepenny Opera
122
8
Ruined Wishes: Jenny and Lilian
130
2
Inscriptive Tetrachords
132
3
Brecht's Photograms
135
3
Villonaud
138
31
Text-Embezzling in The Threepenny Opera
139
2
Pound's Le Testament: Troubadour Imitations
141
5
Le testament: Speech as Music
146
2
Schoenberg's Erwartung and the Rejection of Sequence
148
3
Wagner on Schopenhauer
151
1
The Semantics of Erwartung
152
5
Le testament: Rhythmic Complexity, Melodic Simplicity
157
12
Noh, Again
169
16
Der Jasager: Teaching Acquiescence
170
4
Icons of Trudge and Gluck's Hell
174
1
Tragedy in Music: Plaint vs. Wall
175
3
The Chill of Hieroglyphs
178
1
Weill's Epitaph
179
6
Part Two: Figures of Dissonance among the Arts
Loop
185
13
Parade: Whorls in Picasso's Designs
186
3
Circular Skits
189
1
Satie's Furniture Music as a Barrier against Expression
190
2
Phonometrography
192
1
Property Trees That Don't Convulse
193
1
Cocteau's Unspoken Text
194
4
Cube
198
18
Rimbaud's ``Parade''
198
3
Cubism and the Letter K
201
1
Picasso's Managers: Life inside a Cubist Painting
202
4
Metaphors for Cubes in Satie's Music
206
1
Ballet realiste and Visual Collage
207
4
Intonarumori: Russolo and Boccioni
211
5
Loop, Again
216
28
Non-synchronicity in Silent Films
216
2
The American Girl's Spoof of The Perils of Pauline
218
1
Film Loops in Saint-Saens's L'assassinat du duc de Guise
219
1
Relache: Clair's Entr'acte cinematographique as a Film Loop
220
2
Relache: Segment Construction and Master Bars in Satie's Score
222
3
Antheil's Ballet Mecanique: The Big Foot
225
13
The Leger-Murphy Film of Ballet Mecanique: Cinematic Abstraction
238
6
Surrealism (Literature and Art)
244
31
Apollinaire's Coining of the Word Surrealism
244
2
Apollinaire's Les mamelles de Tiresias
246
10
Calligrams
256
7
Simultanism: Verbal Polyphony
263
3
Surrealism as a Codified Style: Breton's Land of Unlikeness
266
4
Lautreamont's Tryst of Sewing Machine and Umbrella
270
2
Headlessness
272
3
Surrealism (Music)
275
36
The Cocteau-Milhaud Le Boeuf sur le toit: Nothing Happens
276
2
The Cocteau-Les Six Les maries de la Tour Eiffel
278
10
Dadaist Music: Schwitters and Duchamp
288
1
Allusion in the Music of Les maries de la Tour Eiffel
289
2
Stravinsky as Fagin
291
1
The Jacob-Poulenc Le bal masque
292
3
The Eluard-Poulenc Un soir de neige: Theft from Ravel
295
2
Poulenc's Setting of Les mamelles de Tiresias
297
11
Voice-Training Lessons
308
3
Heaven
311
54
Temporal Images of the Timeless
311
2
Transfiguration in Strauss, Faure, and Elgar
313
2
Stein, Automatic Writing, and Dali
315
1
Stein's Early ``Psychological'' Style: The Making of Americans
316
1
Stein's Objective Style: Tender Buttons
317
2
Stein's An Elucidation: Discourse Vanishing into Visual Pattern
319
4
The Land of Unlikeness, Revisited
323
2
Stein's Landscape Style: Drama without a Story
325
2
Landscape Grammar
327
4
Four Saints in Three Acts: An Opera with No Acts
331
3
Heavenly Reconfigurings of Position
334
2
Counting for Counting's Sake
336
3
Thomson's Early Stein Settings: Susie Asado, Capital Capitals
339
2
Thomson's Discipline of Spontaneity
341
2
Four Saints: Consonant Harmony, Dissonant Syntax
343
4
Counting for Counting's Sake, in Music
347
7
Grosser's Scenario for Four Saints: Imposing Narrative on the Inenarrable
354
3
Stettheimer's Stage Set: The Knickknack Shelf Enlarged
357
3
Thomson's Theory of Incidental Music
360
1
Voice-Training Lessons, Again
361
4
Notes
365
16
Works Cited
381
6
Photo Credits
387
2
Index
389