UNSUNG VOICES by Carolyn Abbate ( 9780691026084 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

UNSUNG VOICES
OPERA AND MUSICAL NARRATIVE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

By:

Carolyn Abbate

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Paperback

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0691026084

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9780691026084

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Publisher:

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 April, 1996

Series:

Princeton Studies in Opera

Pages:

304

Description:

Who 'speaks' to us in "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", in Wagner's operas, in a Mahler symphony? This title opens nineteenth-century operas and instrumental works to new interpretations as the author explores the voices projected by music.

Synopsis:

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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88 pp music

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Princeton University Press

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