Unsung Voices Opera and Musical Narrative in the Nineteenth Century |
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| Author:
| Abbate, Carolyn |
| Series title: | Princeton Studies in Opera |
| ISBN: | 978-0-691-09140-2 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 1991 |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $144.00 |
Book Description:
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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...
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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.