Wagner's melodies : aesthetics and materialism in German musical identity / / David Trippett [[electronic resource]]
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Trippett David <1980->
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| Titolo: |
Wagner's melodies : aesthetics and materialism in German musical identity / / David Trippett [[electronic resource]]
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xiv, 448 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina: | 782.1092 |
| Soggetto topico: | Music - 19th century - Philosophy and aesthetics |
| Melody | |
| Note generali: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 indispensable place in opera, contemporary theorists were unable even to agree on a definition for it. In Wagner's Melodies, David Trippett re-examines Wagner's central aesthetic claims, placing the composer's ideas about melody in the context of the scientific discourse of his age: from the emergence of the natural sciences and historical linguistics to sources about music's stimulation of the body and inventions for 'automatic' composition. Interweaving a rich variety of material from the history of science, music theory, music criticism, private correspondence and court reports, Trippett uncovers a new and controversial discourse that placed melody at the apex of artistic self-consciousness and generated problems of urgent dimensions for German music aesthetics. |
| Altri titoli varianti: | Aesthetics and materialism in German musical identity |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Wagner's melodies |
| ISBN: | 1-139-88851-X |
| 1-107-06496-1 | |
| 1-107-05656-X | |
| 1-107-05445-1 | |
| 1-107-05766-3 | |
| 1-139-01370-X | |
| 1-107-05891-0 | |
| 1-107-05547-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 996248315203316 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. di Salerno |
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