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The Necessity of Music : Variations on a German Theme / Celia Applegate.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Applegate, Celia, Author.
- Series:
- German and European studies.
- German and European Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--Social aspects--Germany.
- Music.
- Music--Germany--History and criticism.
- Germany.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (417 pages) : illustrations, tables.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2020]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- In The Necessity of Music, Celia Applegate explores the many ways that Germans thought about and made music from the eighteenth- to twentieth-centuries.
- Contents:
- Cover; Copyright page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Places; 1 How German Is It?; 2 Music in Place; 3 Musical Itinerancy in a World of Nations; 4 Music at the Fairs; Part II: People; 5 Mendelssohn on the Road; 6 A.B. Marx's Cosmopolitan Nationalism; 7 Schumann's German Nation; 8 The Musical Worlds of Brahms's Hamburg; Part III: Public and Private; 9 What Difference Does a Nation Make?; 10 Men with Trombones; 11 Women's Wagner; 12 Hausmusik in the Third Reich; 13 To Be or Not to Be Wagnerian in Leni Riefenstahl's Films; 14 Saving Music; Notes; Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Jul 2020)
- ISBN:
- 1-4875-1160-4
- 1-4875-1159-0
- OCLC:
- 1163878168
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