Strauss, Also sprach Zarathustra [electronic resource] / John Williamson.

Richard Strauss's tone poem Also sprach Zarathustra is one of his most controversial works. Its greatest popularity has been achieved when its connection with Nietzsche's book of the same name has seemed less relevant than its associations with Kubrick's film 2001 - A Space Odyssey. A...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ACLS)
Main Author: Williamson, John, 1949-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Series:Cambridge music handbooks.
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Table of Contents:
  • 'Freely after Nietzsche'
  • The Straussian tone poem as drama
  • Strauss's individualism
  • Composition and first performances
  • Recpetion
  • Narratives
  • Structures
  • Rhetoric
  • Afterword.