Unsung Voices : Opera and Musical Narrative in the Nineteenth Century / Carolyn Abbate.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abbate, Carolyn, author.

Series:

Princeton studies in opera.

Princeton Studies in Opera ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Narrative in music.

Music--19th century--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Music.

Opera--19th century.

Opera.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [1996]

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Preface

Chapter One. Music's Voices

Chapter Two. What the Sorcerer Said

Chapter Three. Cherubino Uncovered: Reflexivity in Operatic Narration

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

Chapter Five. Wotan's Monologue and the Morality of Musical Narration

Chapter Six. Brünnhilde Walks by Night

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-282) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9781322974316

1322974314

9781400843831

1400843839

OCLC:

738550840