Unsung Voices Opera and Musical Narrative in the Nineteenth Century

Name: Unsung Voices Opera and Musical Narrative in the Nineteenth Century
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ISBN: 9780691026084

ISBN-10: 0691026084

ISBN-13: 9780691026084

Edition: 1991

Authors: Carolyn Abbate

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Who "speaks" to us inThe 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.

Book details

List price: $53.00
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 4/21/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.94" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Preface



Music's Voices



What the Sorcerer Said



Cherubino Uncovered: Reflexivity in Operatic Narration



Mahler's Deafness: Opera and the Scene of Narration in Todtenfeier



Wotan's Monologue and the Morality of Musical Narration



Brunnhilde Walks by Night


Notes


Bibliography


Index