| Description |
xiv, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Staging subjectivity in the Mozart/Da Ponte operas. Staging subjectivity ; Don Giovanni and the scene of patricide ; Le nozze di Figaro and the scene of emancipation ; Così fan tutte and the scene of instruction -- Beethoven: heroism and abstraction. Heroism and abstraction ; Heroism and anxiety ; Fidelio ; The symphony no. 9 -- Canny and uncanny histories in Biedermeier music. Biedermeier music ; Mendelssohn's canny histories ; Schumann's uncanny histories ; Back to Schubert -- The family romances of music drama. The family romances of music drama ; Siegmund's death ; Subjectivity and identity -- The voice of the people at the moment of the nation. People and nations ; Brahms, 1868 ; Verdi, 1874 ; Dvořák, 1890 -- Minor modernisms. Music trauma, or, is there life after Wagner? ; Three fins-de-siècle ; The road into the open -- The musical unconscious. |
| Subject |
Music -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Music. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Subjectivity in music.
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Subjectivity in music. |
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Subjectivity in opera.
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Subjectivity in opera. |
| ISBN |
0691116857 alkaline paper |
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