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Wagner's melodies : aesthetics and materialism in German musical identity /

Since the 1840s, critics have lambasted Wagner for lacking the ability to compose melody. But for him, melody was fundamental - 'music's only form'. This incongruity testifies to the surprising difficulties during the nineteenth century of conceptualizing melody. Despite its indispens...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Trippett, David, 1980- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • German melody
  • Melodielehre?
  • Wagner in the melodic workshop
  • Excursus : Bellini's Sinnlichkeit, Wagner's Italy
  • Hearing voices : Wilhelmine Schroder-Devrient and the Lohengrin recitatives
  • Vowels, voices, and "original truth"
  • Wagner's material expression.