“From The Window on Some Floor This Mozart’s Aria” – a Poem with a Music Accent Cover Image

„Z okna na którymś piętrze ta aria Mozarta” – wiersz z muzycznym akcentem
“From The Window on Some Floor This Mozart’s Aria” – a Poem with a Music Accent

Author(s): Aleksandra Reimann
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Stanisław Barańczak; Barańczak’s poem “From the window on some floor this Mozart’s aria;” Mozart's “The Wedding of Figaro;” “Non so più”

Summary/Abstract: The problems discussed in the article pertain to music-literary relationship. The arts dialogue is approached here as based on the interpretation of Stanisław Barańczak’s poem “From the window on some floor this Mozart’s aria.” The reading of the poem is subject to music reception style, thus musical expectations from a literary text which induces the reader to make musical retorts – musical unequivocals. Mistrust of meanings closed in words leads to anagrams (F. de Saussure’s theory) and to the search of order set by the classical harmony. The intertextual parallel drawn between the poem and the lyrics of “Non so più” from Mozart’s “The Wedding of Figaro” shows interdisciplinary solutions to be found at the crossroad of the poem, music, Italian aria’s text and its Polish translation by Barańczak.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 113-136
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Polish