Unsung voices : opera and musical narrative in the nineteenth century / Carolyn Abbate.
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 m...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
1996.
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| Edition: | Second printing, and first paperback printing. |
| Series: | Princeton studies in opera.
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| 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 288 pages) : music. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-282) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400843831 1400843839 |
| Language: | In English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record and on online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest, viewed December 6, 2015) |