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MUSICALMEANINGANDINTERPRETATION

RobertS.Hatten,editor

ForKevin

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Overture

1WhatIsaNarrative?

2Telling,Operatically

3Character-Narrators

4OrchestralNarrationandAuthorialCommentary

5Character-FocusedNarration

6WorksandPerformances

7PerformancesofWorks

8PerformancesasWorks

Finale

Bibliography

Index

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

AMMUCHBETTERSUITEDTOTALKINGABOUTnarrativesthantellingthem.Nevertheless,the

IonlyorderlywayIcanconceiveofrecognizingthemanyindividuals

whohaveshapedtheideasinthisbookandhavemadeitspublication

possibleisasastory.ItbeginswithaclarinetistinthepitoftheMacMillan

TheatreattheUniversityofToronto.Asmyhusbandisfondofrelating,he

couldalwayspickmeoutastheonewhoseheadwasfirmlyturnedtoward

thestagewheneverIwasnotrequiredtoplay.WhenIdecidedthatIneeded

toseemoreofthatworld,IdiscoveredthattheUniversityofTorontowas

alsohometoalargeandlivelycommunityofoperascholars.ThecoursesI

tookinmyfirsttermofgraduatestudiesinmusicology—LindaHutcheon

andCarylClark’sinterdisciplinaryoperaclassandSherryLee’saesthetics

seminar—anticipatemanyoftheaimsandpreoccupationsofthisbook.

Linda,Caryl,Sherry,andtheothermembersoftheOperaticsworking

groupprovidedmewithamodelofcollaborative,interdisciplinary

scholarship.

InTrevorPonech’scinematicnarrativeseminaratMcGillUniversity,I

discoveredthatmanyofthequestionsphilosopherswereaskingofcinema

hadnotbeengivenseriousattentioninoperastudies.Morethanproviding

mewiththetopicandmethodologyforthisbook,Trevor’sclassope