Wagner's Musical Prose
Texts and Contexts
Part of New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism
- Author: Thomas S. Grey, Stanford University, California
- Date Published: January 2007
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521033190
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This book is a study of the prose writings of Richard Wagner and their relevance to an understanding of his music and drama, as well as their relation to music criticism and aesthetics in the nineteenth century in general. As a by-product of Wagner's many-faceted career as musician, conductor, cultural critic and controversial ideologue, the writings are documents of undisputed interpretative value. This study focuses on Wagner's words on music, and interprets them in the light of the musical, aesthetic and critical contexts that generated them. Professor Grey considers Wagner's ambivalence concerning the idea of 'absolute music' and the capacity of music to project meaning or drama from within its own system of referents. Particularly relevant are Wagner's appropriation of a Beethoven legacy, the metaphors of musical 'gender' and 'biology' in Opera and Drama and the critical background to ideas of 'motive' and 'leitmotif' in theory and practice.
Read more- Makes accessible Wagner's influential prose writings on musical subjects
- Focuses on important themes and relates them to Wagner's own music dramas
- Exploits alternative approaches in music criticism to set Wagner's writing in historical and intellectual context
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- Date Published: January 2007
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521033190
- length: 420 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 151 x 27 mm
- weight: 0.631kg
- contains: 65 music examples
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Wagner and the problematics of 'absolute music' in the nineteenth century
2. Beethoven reception and the hermeneutic impulse: 'poetic ideas' and new forms
3. Engendering music drama: Opera and Drama and its metaphors
4. The 'poetic-musical period' and the 'evolution' of Wagnerian form
5. Endless melodies
6. Motive and motivations: leitmotif and 'symphonic' drama
Appendices
Bibliography
Index.
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