Unsung Voices: Opera and Musical Narrative in the Nineteenth Century

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Apr 1, 1996
1991
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88 pp music
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Who 鈥渟peaks鈥 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 鈥渟ings鈥 is thus reanimated in a new context, and Abbate proposes interpretive strategies that 鈥渄e-center鈥 music criticism, that seek the polyphony and dialogism of music, and that celebrate musical gestures often marginalized by conventional music analysis.