Format:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (350 p.))
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780511820496
Series Statement:
New perspectives in music history and criticism 21
Content:
What does it mean to say that music is deeply moving? Or that music's aesthetic value derives from its deep structure? This study traces the widely employed trope of musical depth to its origins in German-language music criticism and analysis. From the Romantic aesthetics of E. T. A. Hoffmann to the modernist theories of Arnold Schoenberg, metaphors of depth attest to the cross-pollination of music with discourses ranging from theology, geology and poetics to psychology, philosophy and economics. The book demonstrates that the persistence of depth metaphors in musicology and music theory today is an outgrowth of their essential role in articulating and transmitting Germanic cultural values. While musical depth metaphors have historically served to communicate German nationalist sentiments, Watkins shows that an appreciation for the broad connotations of those metaphors opens up exciting new avenues for interpretation
Content:
From the mine to the shrine : the critical origins of musical depth -- Adolf Bernhard Marx and the inner life of music -- Robert Schumann and poetic depth -- Richard Wagner and the depths of time -- Heinrich Schenker and the apotheosis of musical depth -- Schoenberg's interior designs
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107010918
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107460980
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. Watkins, Holly, 1972 - Metaphors of depth in German musical thought Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2011 ISBN 9781107460980
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107010918
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1107010918
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107010918
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9781107010918
Language:
English
Subjects:
Musicology
Keywords:
Deutschland
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Österreich
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Musiktheorie
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Tiefe
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Geschichte 1800-1950
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Marx, Adolf Bernhard 1795-1866
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Schumann, Robert 1810-1856
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Wagner, Richard 1813-1883
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Schenker, Heinrich 1868-1935
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Schönberg, Arnold 1874-1951
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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511820496
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Author information:
Watkins, Holly 1972-
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