Unsung Voices: Opera and Musical Narrative in the Nineteenth Century
Paperback
- Price:
- $55.00/拢45.00
- ISBN:
- Published:
- Apr 21, 1996
- Copyright:
- 1991
- Pages:
- 304
- Size:
- 6 x 9 in.
- 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.