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WAGNER'S MELODIES
AESTHETICS AND MATERIALISM IN GERMAN MUSICAL IDENTITY |
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David Trippett |
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ISBN 10: |
1316618234 |
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9781316618233 |
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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
4 August, 2016 |
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464 |
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Wagner's Melodies places the composer's ideas about melody in the context of the scientific discourse of his age. |
Synopsis: |
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. |
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21 b/w illus. 17 music examples |
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UK |
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Cambridge University Press |
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