Format:
Online-Ressource (464 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9781107014305
Content:
Wagner's Melodies places the composer's ideas about melody in the context of the scientific discourse of his age
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; A note on presentation; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 German melody; Part 1; Monstrance; Neurosis; Wagnerian melody: infinite criticism; Part 2; Forms of expression; Das Charakteristische / Die Charakteristik; Ugliness in Das Rheingold (1854); Between symbolism and realism; 2 Melodielehre?; Lightning bolts; Associationism; The psychograph, or Lohengrin as "unconscious consciousness"; The "melograph" as mindless composing; (Failed) attempts at Melodik ca. 1840-50; Rhythm; Wellenspiel; Parameters of expression; Plural listening
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Marx's organicismJ. C. Lobe and the human melograph; 3 Wagner in the melodic workshop; Plagiarism and originality; Shadowing Bellini: Wagner's armature; Contrafacta and confessions of melodic failure; Norma "simuliamo" and the pedagogy of remodeling; Chromatic continuations; Excursus: Bellini's Sinnlichkeit and Wagner's Italy; 4 Hearing voices: Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient and the Lohengrin "recitatives"; Part 1; Adolescent ears; Die richtige Sängerin; Revising the Wagner-Devrient relationship; Expressing with "no 'voice'"; Part 2; The Lohengrin recitatives
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Towards language: gas-light and candle-lampsNotation: "entirely insufficient"; Pronouncing the homeland; 5 Vowels, voices, and "original truth"; Wagner's Sinnlichkeit; Speaking nationally; Philologie: "a radical cure"; Wagner's Melodik; Reintroducing Jacob Grimm; Linguistic relativity; Sound qua immanent meaning; Vowels: from speech physiology to material sound; Musical vowels; 6 Wagner's material expression; Part 1; The "real" swan; The human "language machine"; Musical monism qua science of feeling; Physical Mitleid; Part 2; A comparative physiognomy: vowels and colors; Physiological colors
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Wagner's melodic triangleSuggestive metaphors: water and sound waves; Picturing vibrations; Watery emblems: the harmonic sea; Epilogue: Turning off the lights; Appendix A: Books on language in Wagner's Dresden library; Appendix B: Books on language in Wagner's Wahnfried library; Select bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107058910
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107014305
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Wagner's Melodies : Aesthetics and Materialism in German Musical Identity
Language:
English
Keywords:
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