UID:
almafu_9959226803002883
Format:
1 online resource (288 p.)
ISBN:
1-322-97431-4
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1-4008-4383-9
Series Statement:
Princeton Studies in Opera ; 1
Content:
Who "speaks" to us in The Sorcerer's Apprentice, in Wagner's operas, in a Mahler symphony? In asking this question, Carolyn Abbate opens nineteenth-century operas and instrumental works to new interpretations as she explores the voices projected by music. The nineteenth-century metaphor of music that "sings" is thus reanimated in a new context, and Abbate proposes interpretive strategies that "de-center" music criticism, that seek the polyphony and dialogism of music, and that celebrate musical gestures often marginalized by conventional music analysis.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Frontmatter --
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CONTENTS --
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Preface --
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Chapter One. Music's Voices --
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Chapter Two. What the Sorcerer Said --
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Chapter Three. Cherubino Uncovered: Reflexivity in Operatic Narration --
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Chapter Four. Mahler's Deafness: Opera and the Scene of Narration in Todtenfeier --
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Chapter Five. Wotan's Monologue and the Morality of Musical Narration --
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Chapter Six. Brünnhilde Walks by Night --
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Notes --
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Bibliography --
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Index
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Issued also in print.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-691-09140-4
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-691-02608-4
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781400843831
