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Unsung Voices : Opera and Musical Narrative in the Nineteenth Century / Carolyn Abbate.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Studies in Opera ; 1Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [1996]Copyright date: ©1991Description: 1 online resource (304 p.) : 88 pp musicContent type:
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  • 9780691026084
  • 9781400843831
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 782.109034
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Chapter One. Music's Voices -- Chapter Two. What the Sorcerer Said -- Chapter Three. Cherubino Uncovered: Reflexivity in Operatic Narration -- Chapter Four. Mahler's Deafness: Opera and the Scene of Narration in Todtenfeier -- Chapter Five. Wotan's Monologue and the Morality of Musical Narration -- Chapter Six. Brünnhilde Walks by Night -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Chapter One. Music's Voices -- Chapter Two. What the Sorcerer Said -- Chapter Three. Cherubino Uncovered: Reflexivity in Operatic Narration -- Chapter Four. Mahler's Deafness: Opera and the Scene of Narration in Todtenfeier -- Chapter Five. Wotan's Monologue and the Morality of Musical Narration -- Chapter Six. Brünnhilde Walks by Night -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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