Unsung Voices: Opera and Musical Narrative in the Nineteenth Century (Princeton Studies in Opera) - Hardcover

Abbate, Carolyn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691091404 ISBN 13: 9780691091402

Verlag: Princeton University Press, 1991

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Críticas:

"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 `Brünnhilde 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 aspects of the way in which we hear music.... We will ... want to reflect further on a good many of its arguments ... because what Abbate offers in Unsung Voices is not only ... a set of conclusions but a powerful machine to think with."--Lawrence Rosenwald, Opera Quarterly

Reseña del editor:

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.

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• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0691091404
• ISBN 13: 9780691091402
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304