| Description |
xix, 397 p. : music ; 24 cm. |
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New perspectives in music history and criticism |
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New perspectives in music history and criticism.
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ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 380-390) and index. |
| Contents |
1. Wagner and the problematics of "absolute music" in the nineteenth century: Ideas of absolute music ; Questions of autonomy ; Content and/or/as form ; Absolute music and "ideas: a new determinacy? -- 2. Beethoven reception and the hermeneutic impulse: "poetic ideas" and new forms: Beethoven's "poetic ideas": notes on the genesis of a critical tradition ; Poetics, heroics, funérailles ; Fear of the Fifth: the uncanniness of instrumental speech ; Beethoven's "sketches" (poetic intentions and musical consequences) -- 3. Engendering music drama: Opera and Drama and its metaphors: Metaphors of gender, and others; Natural sciences: reproductive biology and a theory of "evolution"; Music mastered, poetic reason (nearly) seduced: allegory and antithesis -- 4. The "poetic-musical period" and the "evolution" of Wagnerian form: Periode and Entwicklung ; "Evolving" period-complexes and Wagner's evolution: three dialogues -- 5. Endless melodies: Wagner and his critics around 1860 (Wagner's melody--all or none?) ; |
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Melody, origins, and utopias of regression (melody as the origin of speech and poetry in Opera and Drama) ; Melody as form -- 6. Motives and motivations: leitmotif and "symphonic" drama: Warum? (motives to musical form) ; The birth of the music drama from the "labor-pains of program music" ; Motif, motive, Motiv: dramatic motivations and "symphonic form" ; Delirium and death as transgressive motives: "dramatic symphony" and "symphonic drama" ; Dénouements (motivic threads, dramatic plots, musical knots and resolutions). |
| Reproduction |
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2010. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) ([New perspectives in music history and criticism]) Mode of access: Intranet. |
| Subject |
Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883 -- Written works.
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Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883 -- Aesthetics.
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Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883. Operas.
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Music -- 19th century -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
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Musical criticism.
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Opera.
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| Added Author |
American Council of Learned Societies.
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| In: |
ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: https://www.humanitiesebook.org/ |
| Other Form: |
Original 0521417384 (DLC) 94011417 |
| Standard No. |
2027/heb07650 hdl |
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