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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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.