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Wagner's melodies : aesthetics and materialism in German musical identity / David Trippett.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Trippett, David, 1980- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883--Criticism and interpretation.
- Wagner, Richard.
- Music--19th century--Philosophy and aesthetics.
- Music.
- Melody.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 448 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Since the 1840s, critics have lambasted Wagner for lacking the ability to compose melody. But for him, melody was fundamental - 'music's only form'. This incongruity testifies to the surprising difficulties during the nineteenth century of conceptualizing melody. Despite its indispensable place in opera, contemporary theorists were unable even to agree on a definition for it. In Wagner's Melodies, David Trippett re-examines Wagner's central aesthetic claims, placing the composer's ideas about melody in the context of the scientific discourse of his age: from the emergence of the natural sciences and historical linguistics to sources about music's stimulation of the body and inventions for 'automatic' composition. Interweaving a rich variety of material from the history of science, music theory, music criticism, private correspondence and court reports, Trippett uncovers a new and controversial discourse that placed melody at the apex of artistic self-consciousness and generated problems of urgent dimensions for German music aesthetics.
- Contents:
- German melody
- Melodielehre?
- Wagner in the melodic workshop
- Excursus : Bellini's Sinnlichkeit, Wagner's Italy
- Hearing voices : Wilhelmine Schroder-Devrient and the Lohengrin recitatives
- Vowels, voices, and "original truth"
- Wagner's material expression.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781139888516
- 113988851X
- 9781107064966
- 1107064961
- 9781107056565
- 110705656X
- 9781107054455
- 1107054451
- 9781107057661
- 1107057663
- 9781139013703
- 113901370X
- 9781107058910
- 1107058910
- 9781107055476
- 1107055474
- OCLC:
- 843187556
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb32768 hdl
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