Unsung Voices: Opera and Musical Narrative in the Nineteenth Century
Unsung Voices: Opera and Musical Narrative in the Nineteenth Century By Carolyn Abbate
1996 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 0691026084 , 0691091404 | PDF | 25 MB
1996 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 0691026084 , 0691091404 | PDF | 25 MB
Who "speaks" to us in The Sorcerer's Apprentice, in Wagner's operas, in a Mahler symphony? In asking this question, Carolyn Abbate opens nineteenth-century operas and instrumental works to new interpretations as she explores the voices projected by music. The nineteenth-century metaphor of music that "sings" is thus reanimated in a new context, and Abbate proposes interpretive strategies that "de-center" music criticism, that seek the polyphony and dialogism of music, and that celebrate musical gestures often marginalized by conventional music analysis.