Unsung voices : opera and musical narrative in the nineteenth century

Summary: 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

Record details

ISBN: 1400843839
ISBN: 9781400843831
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 288 pages) : music
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Edition: Second printing, and first paperback printing.
Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1996
Copyright: ©1991

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-282) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Music's voices -- What the sorcerer said -- Cherubino uncovered : reflexivity in operatic narration -- Mahler's deafness : opera and the scene of narration in Todtenfeier -- Wotan's monologue and the morality of musical narration -- Brunnhilde walks by night.
Restrictions on Access Note:	NLC staff and students only.
Language Note:	In English.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record and on online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest, viewed December 6, 2015).