| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Music -- 19th century -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
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Music. |
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19th century |
| Subject |
Melody.
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Melody. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Trippett, David, 1980- Wagner's melodies. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013 9781107014305 (DLC) 2012034001 (OCoLC)808245183 |
| ISBN |
9781107055476 (electronic book) |
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1107055474 (electronic book) |
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9781139013703 (electronic book) |
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113901370X (electronic book) |
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1107014301 |
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9781107014305 |
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9781299634374 |
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1299634370 |
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9781107014305 (hardback) |
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9781316618233 (paperback) |
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