Format:
1 Online-Ressource (vii, 203 Seiten)
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Notenbeispiele
ISBN:
9781793653932
Content:
This book shows how over the hundred years between the Vienna Congress and the dissolution of the Empire, the waltz altered from signifier of upper-class artifice-covering with glitz and glamour the poverty and war central to the time-to the link between the three classes, between man and nature, and between Viennese and "Other.".
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- Notes -- Chapter 1: Topics in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna -- High Class Topics -- Low Class Topics -- Dances -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Evolution of Viennese Cultural-Historical Topics: Romance, Freud and Authenticity -- Liberalism and Rationalism -- Psyche -- Freud as the Central Psychoanalytical Personality -- Freud's Oedipal Complex: the Father/Son Conflict of the Failure of Liberalism -- Psychology in Literature -- The Rational and Psychological as Topics -- Authenticity -- Romance -- Nationalism -- Nationalism as Exotic "Other" -- Notes -- Chapter 3: The Waltz and the 'Other' -- The Waltz: The Dancers, The Lovers, The Drinkers, The Memories -- 'When Vienna gets gay, the situation is truly grave' -- Nationalism as 'Other' in the Austrian Narrative -- The Polka -- Style Hongrois -- Signification -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Narrative and Deception -- Die Fledermaus and Walzertraum: Deception as Austrian Identity -- Verismo and the Double in Lehár's Die Lustige Witwe -- Notes -- Chapter 5: The Development of the Uncanny Narrative -- From Ombra to the Uncanny -- Castration Complex -- Time Shards -- Non-texted Topical Narrative in Op. 16, No. 1. -- The Anxiety of Alienation, or 'Entry into Civilisation' -- Notes -- Chapter 6: The Waltz and the Uncanny in Mahler's Seventh Symphony -- Seventh Symphony Scherzo -- Nachtmusik II and IV -- The Beginning and the End: I and V -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Mahler's Scherzos and the Uncanny Waltz -- Symphonic Scherzos -- Third Symphony, Movement II -- Fourth Symphony, Movement II -- Fifth Symphony, Movement III -- Sixth Symphony, Movement II -- Ninth Symphony, Movement II -- Notes -- Chapter 7: The Waltz as Pivot Point in Webern's Symphony Op. 21 -- First Movement -- Second Movement -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781793653925
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781793653925
Language:
English
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