Richard Strauss : an owner's manual / David Hurwitz.
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| Format: | CD Book |
| Language: | English |
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Milwaukee, WI :
Amadeus Press, an imprint of Hal Leonard Corporation,
2014.
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| Series: | Unlocking the masters series ;
no. 25. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. A first-class second-rate composer?
- Orchestral music without voices. Symphonies, concertos, and serenades ; Tone poems I : people ; Tone poems II : places and things
- Theatrical and vocal music (operas, ballets, suites, and songs). Strauss and the German operatic tradition ; The Greek operas : six heroines: Iphigenia, Elektra, Ariadne, Helen, Daphne, and Danae ; Old Vienna (and Paris) : Der Rosenkavalier, Le bourgeois gentilhomme, Schlagobers, Couperin suites, Arabella, and Capriccio ; Exoticism and eroticism : Salome, Josephs Legende, and Die Frau ohne Schatten ; Domestic comedies : Feuersnot, Intermezzo, and Die schweigsame Frau ; War and peace : Friedenstag and Guntram ; Over forty gorgeous songs with orchestra (who knew?)
- Appendix. Starting a Strauss collection.