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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792709603321

Autore

Applegate Celia

Titolo

The Necessity of Music : Variations on a German Theme / / Celia Applegate

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]

©2017

ISBN

1-4875-1160-4

1-4875-1159-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (417 pages) : illustrations, tables

Collana

German and European Studies

Classificazione

780943

Disciplina

780.94309044

Soggetti

Music - Social aspects - Germany

Music - Germany - History and criticism

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Germany

Deutschland

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copyright page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Places; 1 How German Is It?; 2 Music in Place; 3 Musical Itinerancy in a World of Nations; 4 Music at the Fairs; Part II: People; 5 Mendelssohn on the Road; 6 A.B. Marx's Cosmopolitan Nationalism; 7 Schumann's German Nation; 8 The Musical Worlds of Brahms's Hamburg; Part III: Public and Private; 9 What Difference Does a Nation Make?; 10 Men with Trombones; 11 Women's Wagner; 12 Hausmusik in the Third Reich; 13 To Be or Not to Be Wagnerian in Leni Riefenstahl's Films; 14 Saving Music; Notes; Index.

Sommario/riassunto

In The Necessity of Music, Celia Applegate explores the many ways that Germans thought about and made music from the eighteenth- to twentieth-centuries.