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.
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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 `Brnnhilde 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 --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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 --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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WE BEGIN with a scene that explores the power of narration, by showings us how a certain Hindu priestess comes to tell the "Tale of the Pariah's Daughter": Nilakantha (avec beaucoup de sentiment): Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Siegfrieds Tod, Rome Narrative, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Eric's Dream, Bell Song, Immolation Monologue, Der Vampyr, Second Symphony, German Romantic, Rimbaud's Ballad, Walkiire Act, Don Giovanni, Goethe's Apprentice, Mahler's Todtenfeier, World Ash Tree, Edward Cone, Joseph Kerman, Meyerbeer's Robert, Stegfrieds Tod, Alte Weise, Anthony Newcomb, Das Rheingold, Emmy's Romanza, Mickiewicz's Todtenfeier, Tristan Act New!
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WE BEGIN with a scene that explores the power of narration, by showings us how a certain Hindu priestess comes to tell the "Tale of the Pariah's Daughter": Nilakantha (avec beaucoup de sentiment): Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Siegfrieds Tod, Rome Narrative, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Eric's Dream, Bell Song, Immolation Monologue, Der Vampyr, Second Symphony, German Romantic, Rimbaud's Ballad, Walkiire Act, Don Giovanni, Goethe's Apprentice, Mahler's Todtenfeier, World Ash Tree, Edward Cone, Joseph Kerman, Meyerbeer's Robert, Stegfrieds Tod, Alte Weise, Anthony Newcomb, Das Rheingold, Emmy's Romanza, Mickiewicz's Todtenfeier, Tristan Act New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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