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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aTomlinson, Gary
_eautore
245 1 0 _aMetaphysical Song :
_bAn Essay on Opera /
_cGary Tomlinson.
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2014]
264 4 _c©1999
300 _a1 online resource (192 p.) :
_b7 halftones 12 music examples
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490 0 _aPrinceton Studies in Opera ;
_v33
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tPreface --
_tI. Voices of the Invisible --
_tII. Late Renaissance Opera --
_tIII. Early Modern Opera --
_tIV. Modern Opera --
_tV. Nietzsche: Overcoming Operatic Metaphysics --
_tVI. Ghosts in the Machine --
_tVII. The Sum of Modernity --
_tNotes --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aIn this bold recasting of operatic history, Gary Tomlinson connects opera to shifting visions of metaphysics and selfhood across the last four hundred years. The operatic voice, he maintains, has always acted to open invisible, supersensible realms to the perceptions of its listeners. In doing so, it has articulated changing relations between the self and metaphysics. Tomlinson examines these relations as they have been described by philosophers from Ficino through Descartes, Kant, and Nietzsche, to Adorno, all of whom worked to define the subject's place in both material and metaphysical realms. The author then shows how opera, in its own cultural arena, distinct from philosophy, has repeatedly brought to the stage these changing relations of the subject to the particular metaphysics it presumes. Covering composers from Jacopo Peri to Wagner, from Lully to Verdi, and from Mozart to Britten, Metaphysical Song details interactions of song, words, drama, and sounds used by creators of opera to fill in the outlines of the subjectivities they envisioned. The book offers deep-seated explanations for opera's enduring fascination in European elite culture and suggests some of the profound difficulties that have unsettled this fascination since the time of Wagner.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)
650 0 _aMusic
_xPhilosophy and aesthetics.
650 0 _aOpera.
650 7 _aMUSIC / Genres & Styles / Opera.
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