| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 266 pages) : music |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title ; Title page ; Copyright information ; Dedication ; Table of contents ; List of Musical Examples ; Praeludium ; Preface ; End Notes ; 1 Irony as a ''Master Trope'' ; End Notes ; 2 Varieties of Musical Irony ; Irony at the Hinge Where Movements or Sections Change. |
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Irony Within a Contrapuntal Juxtaposition Ironies of Irruption or Interruption ; When Music is Performed, Quoted, or Restated in a Context that Induces a Sense of Irony. |
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Irony where the music lies against the text (tells us not to believe what is being said) or where the words or situations lie against the music (where, e.g., the optimism or joy of the music is not to be believed). Dramatic Irony ; Peripeteia -- Tragic Ironies of Reversal. |
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Ironies of Distancing, Detachment, and Isolation Making the Repulsive Attractive ; Irony in Parody ; Irony in the Way a Piece Presses Up Against Its Precursor ; Ironies Unstated ; Ironies of Undecidables ; End Notes ; 3 Mozart's Figaro. |
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Ironies in the Dances Embedded in the Finale to Act II Ironies in Two Comic Ensembles: The Trio from Act I and the Sextet from Act III ; End Notes ; 4 Heine and Irony in the Lied Tradition ; Strophe, Turn, Return, and Carrying On ; Three Setting of Heine by Schubert. |
| Summary |
Sophisticated and engaging, this volume explores and compares musical irony in the works of major composers, from Mozart to Mahler. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828. |
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Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856. |
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Heine, Heinrich, 1797-1856 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Heine, Heinrich, 1797-1856. |
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Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911. |
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Irony in music.
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Irony in music. |
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MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781108502030 |
| ISBN |
1108502032 (e-book) |
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9781108502030 |
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9781108502153 |
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1108502156 |
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9781316493441 |
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131649344X |
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9781108501675 |
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1108501672 |
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