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Book Title
Unsung Voices: Opera and Musical Narrative in the Nineteenth Cent
Publication Date
1996-04-21
Pages
304
ISBN
9780691026084
Subject Area
Music
Publication Name
Unsung Voices : Opera and Musical Narrative in the Nineteenth Century
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Item Length
8.9 in
Subject
History & Criticism, Genres & Styles / Opera
Publication Year
1996
Type
Textbook
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.8 in
Author
Carolyn Abbate
Item Weight
15 Oz
Item Width
5.9 in
Number of Pages
304 Pages

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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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Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691026084
ISBN-13
9780691026084
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1108225

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Unsung Voices : Opera and Musical Narrative in the Nineteenth Century
Publication Year
1996
Subject
History & Criticism, Genres & Styles / Opera
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Music
Author
Carolyn Abbate
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
15 Oz
Item Length
8.9 in
Item Width
5.9 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
College Audience
Dewey Edition
20
Reviews
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, "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 inUnsung Voicesis not only ... a set of conclusions but a powerful machine to think with. -- Lawrence Rosenwald, Opera Quarterly, 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 atour de forceof 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, "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, "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., "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, 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., 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 atour de forceof imaginative interpretation., 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 'Br nnhilde 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
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
782.1/09/034
Lc Classification Number
Ml3858.A2 1996
Table of Content
Preface CHAPTER ONE Music's Voices CHAPTER TWO What the Sorcerer Said CHAPTER THREE Cherubino Uncovered: Reflexivity in Operatic Narration CHAPTER FOUR Mahler's Deafness: Opera and the Scene of Narration in Todtenfeier CHAPTER FIVE Wotan's Monologue and the Morality of Musical Narration CHAPTER SIX Brunnhilde Walks by Night Notes Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
1991

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