LEADER 04042nam 22007335 450 001 996338049603316 005 20190708092533.0 010 $a0-691-09003-3 010 $a1-4008-6673-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400866731 035 $a(CKB)2670000000587911 035 $a(EBL)1843645 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001589750 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16283830 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001589750 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14879907 035 $a(PQKB)10836222 035 $a(OCoLC)933516639 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse42845 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1843645 035 $a(DE-B1597)459754 035 $a(OCoLC)1024044639 035 $a(OCoLC)1029822554 035 $a(OCoLC)1032693559 035 $a(OCoLC)1037980645 035 $a(OCoLC)1041997071 035 $a(OCoLC)1046611586 035 $a(OCoLC)1047004454 035 $a(OCoLC)1049685375 035 $a(OCoLC)1054879868 035 $a(OCoLC)979882050 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400866731 035 $a(PPN)259902322 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000587911 100 $a20190708d2014 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aIn Search of Opera /$fCarolyn Abbate 210 1$aPrinceton, NJ : $cPrinceton University Press, $d[2014] 210 4$d©2001 215 $a1 online resource (309 p.) 225 0 $aPrinceton Studies in Opera ;$v36 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-691-11731-4 311 $a1-322-51435-6 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $t1. Orpheus. One Last Performance -- $t2. Magic Flute, Nocturnal Sun -- $t3. Metempsychotic wagner -- $t4. Debussy's Phantom Sounds -- $t5. Outside the Tomb -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tNotes -- $tSources for Figures -- $tIndex 330 $aIn her new book, Carolyn Abbate considers the nature of operatic performance and the acoustic images of performance present in operas from Monteverdi to Ravel. Paying tribute to music's realization by musicians and singers, she argues that operatic works are indelibly bound to the contingency of live singing, playing, and staging. She seeks a middle ground between operas as abstractions and performance as the phenomenon that brings opera into being. Weaving between opera's "facts of life" and a series of works including The Magic Flute, Parsifal, and Pelléas, Abbate explores a spectrum of attitudes towards musical performance, which range from euphoric visions of singers as creators to uncanny images of musicians as lifeless objects that have been resuscitated by scripts. In doing so, she touches upon several critical issues: the Wagner problem; coloratura, virtuosity, and their critics; the implications of disembodied voice in opera and film; mechanical music; the mortality of musical sound; and opera's predilection for scenes positing mysterious unheard music. An intersection between transcendence and intense physical grounding, she asserts, is a quintessential element of the genre, one source of the rapture that operas and their singers can engender in listeners. In Search of Opera mediates between an experience of opera that can be passionate and intuitive, and an intellectual engagement with opera as a complicated aesthetic phenomenon. Marrying philosophical speculation to historical detail, Abbate contemplates a central dilemma: the ineffability of music and the diverse means by which a fugitive art is best expressed in words. All serious devotees of opera will want to read this imaginative book by s music-critical virtuoso. 410 0$aPrinceton studies in opera. 606 $aMusic$xPhilosophy and aesthetics 606 $aOpera 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMusic$xPhilosophy and aesthetics. 615 0$aOpera. 676 $a782.1 700 $aAbbate$b Carolyn, $0749367 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996338049603316 996 $aIn Search of Opera$91991580 997 $aUNISA