Music speaks : on the language of opera, dance, and song /

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Explores the meaning[s] of music, the most intricate and significant language invented by our culture. From Daniel Albright, author of Musicking Shakespeare and Berlioz's Semi-Operas, comes a collection of essays on music and on dance, probing the problems of articulating the meaning[s] of musi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Albright, Daniel, 1945-2015
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2009.
Series:Eastman studies in music.
Subjects:
Opera.
Songs > History and criticism.
Music and literature.
Dance > History.
Chansons > Histoire et critique.
Musique et littérature.
Danse > Histoire.
MUSIC > Instruction & Study > Appreciation.
MUSIC > General.
Dance
Music and literature
Opera
Songs
Darstellende Kunst
Kunstlied
Musik
Literatur
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Music's Pentecost, music's stupidity
  • Heine and the composers
  • The diabolical Senta
  • Les Troyens : the undoing of opera
  • Far sounds in Zemlinsky and Schreker
  • Butchering Moses
  • Elliott Carter and poetry : listening to, listening through
  • Sophoclean opera
  • Belletristic music in the twentieth century
  • Golden calves : the role of dance in opera
  • Elephant swan space grace.

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