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Unsung Voices: Opera and Musical Narrative in the Nineteenth Century
Carolyn Abbate
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Paperback. Who 'speaks' to us in "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", in Wagner's operas, in a Mahler symphony? This title opens nineteenth-century operas and instrumental works to new interpretations as the author explores the voices projected by music. Series: Princeton studies in opera. Num Pages: 304 pages, 88 pp music. BIC Classification: AVA; AVGC4; AVGC9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Series
Princeton studies in opera
Condition
New
Weight
453g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691026084
SKU
V9780691026084
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About Carolyn Abbate
Carolyn Abbate is Professor of Music at Princeton University. She is the editor of Analyzing Opera and the author of Richard Wagner: Tristan.
Reviews for Unsung Voices: Opera and Musical Narrative in the Nineteenth Century
"Abbate establishes a critical dialogue between music's desire to convey narrative information and its sensual resistance to such signification... Abbate is the most original writer on Wagner to appear since Dahlhaus... Her essay 'Brunnhilde Walks by Night' is a tour de force of imaginative interpretation."
David Schiff, The New Republic "This important book concerns not only particular operas but certain general ... Read more
David Schiff, The New Republic "This important book concerns not only particular operas but certain general ... Read more