Format:
XXVII, 338 S.
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Notenbeisp.
Edition:
1. publ.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. New York Cambridge Collections Online 2011 Online-Ressource Cambridge companions online
Edition:
The Cambridge companions complete collection
Edition:
The Cambridge companions to music
ISBN:
0521899303
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0521728150
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9780521899307
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9780521728157
Series Statement:
Cambridge companions to music
Content:
Richard Strauss is a composer much loved among audiences throughout the world, both in the opera house and the concert hall. Despite this popularity, Strauss was for many years ignored by scholars, who considered his commercial success and his continued reliance on the tonal system to be liabilities. However, the past two decades have seen a resurgence of scholarly interest in the composer. This Companion surveys the results, focusing on the principal genres, the social and historical context, and topics perennially controversial over the last century. Chapters cover Strauss's immense operatic output, the electrifying modernism of his tone poems, and his ever-popular Lieder. Controversial topics are explored, including Strauss's relationship to the Third Reich and the sexual dimension of his works. Reintroducing the composer and his music in light of recent research, the volume shows Strauss's artistic personality to be richer and much more complicated than has been previously acknowledged.
Content:
The musical world of Strauss's youth / James Deaville -- Strauss's compositional process / Walter Werbeck -- Maturity and indecision in the early works / Wayne Heisler, Jr. -- The first cycle of tone poems / David Larkin -- The second cycle of tone poems / James Hepokoski -- Strauss's road to operatic success : Guntram, Feuersnot, and Salome / Morten Kristiansen -- The Strauss-Hofmannsthal operas / Bryan Gilliam -- Opera after Hofmannsthal / Philip Graydon -- Actually, I like my songs best : Strauss's lieder / Susan Youens -- Last works / Jürgen May -- Perspectives / Strauss's place in the twentieth century / Alex Ross -- Musical quotation and allusion in the works of Richard Strauss / Günter Brosche -- Strauss in the Third Reich / Michael Walter -- Strauss and the business of music / Scott Warfield -- Kapellmeister Strauss / Raymond Holden -- Strauss and the sexual body : the erotics of humor, philosophy, and ego-assertion / Bryan Gilliam -- Srauss and the nature of music / Charles Youmans
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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The musical world of Strauss's youth
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Strauss's compositional process
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Maturity and indecision in the early works
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The first cycle of tone poems
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The second cycle of tone poems
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Strauss's road to operatic success : Guntram, Feuersnot, and Salome
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The Strauss-Hofmannsthal operas
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Opera after Hofmannsthal
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Actually, I like my songs best : Strauss's lieder
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Last works
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Perspectives
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Musical quotation and allusion in the works of Richard Strauss
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Strauss in the Third Reich
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Strauss and the business of music
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Kapellmeister Strauss
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Strauss and the sexual body : the erotics of humor, philosophy, and ego-assertion
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Srauss and the nature of music
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Systemvoraussetzungen:
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780511782060
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521899307
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Cambridge companion to Richard Strauss Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2010 ISBN 9780521728157
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521899307
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521899303
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521728150
Language:
English
Subjects:
Musicology
Keywords:
Strauss, Richard 1864-1949
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Strauss, Richard 1864-1949
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Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1017/CCOL9780521899307
Author information:
Youmans, Charles Dowell 1964-
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