Wagner's musical prose texts and contexts /
Grey, Thomas S.
Wagner's musical prose texts and contexts / [electronic resource] : Thomas S. Grey. - Cambridge, [U.K.] ; Cambridge University Press, c1995. - xix, 397 p. : music ; 24 cm. - New perspectives in music history and criticism . - New perspectives in music history and criticism. ACLS Humanities E-Book. .
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 380-390) and index.
Wagner and the problematics of "absolute music" in the nineteenth century: Ideas of absolute music ; Questions of autonomy ; Content and/or/as form ; Absolute music and "ideas: a new determinacy? -- Beethoven reception and the hermeneutic impulse: "poetic ideas" and new forms: Beethoven's "poetic ideas": notes on the genesis of a critical tradition ; Poetics, heroics, funérailles ; Fear of the Fifth: the uncanniness of instrumental speech ; Beethoven's "sketches" (poetic intentions and musical consequences) -- Engendering music drama: Opera and Drama and its metaphors: Metaphors of gender, and others; Natural sciences: reproductive biology and a theory of "evolution"; Music mastered, poetic reason (nearly) seduced: allegory and antithesis -- The "poetic-musical period" and the "evolution" of Wagnerian form: Periode and Entwicklung ; "Evolving" period-complexes and Wagner's evolution: three dialogues -- Endless melodies: Wagner and his critics around 1860 (Wagner's melody--all or none?) ; 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Melody, origins, and utopias of regression (melody as the origin of speech and poetry in Opera and Drama) ; Melody as form -- Motives and motivations: leitmotif and "symphonic" drama: Warum? (motives to musical form) ; The birth of the music drama from the "labor-pains of program music" ; Motif, motive, Motiv: dramatic motivations and "symphonic form" ; Delirium and death as transgressive motives: "dramatic symphony" and "symphonic drama" ; Dénouements (motivic threads, dramatic plots, musical knots and resolutions). 6.
2027/heb07650 hdl
Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883 --Written works.
Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883 --Aesthetics.
Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883. Operas.
--Philosophy and aesthetics.--19th century
Music Musical criticism. Opera.
Wagner's musical prose texts and contexts / [electronic resource] : Thomas S. Grey. - Cambridge, [U.K.] ; Cambridge University Press, c1995. - xix, 397 p. : music ; 24 cm. - New perspectives in music history and criticism . - New perspectives in music history and criticism. ACLS Humanities E-Book. .
E-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal American Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about/
Includes bibliographical references (p. 380-390) and index.
Wagner and the problematics of "absolute music" in the nineteenth century: Ideas of absolute music ; Questions of autonomy ; Content and/or/as form ; Absolute music and "ideas: a new determinacy? -- Beethoven reception and the hermeneutic impulse: "poetic ideas" and new forms: Beethoven's "poetic ideas": notes on the genesis of a critical tradition ; Poetics, heroics, funérailles ; Fear of the Fifth: the uncanniness of instrumental speech ; Beethoven's "sketches" (poetic intentions and musical consequences) -- Engendering music drama: Opera and Drama and its metaphors: Metaphors of gender, and others; Natural sciences: reproductive biology and a theory of "evolution"; Music mastered, poetic reason (nearly) seduced: allegory and antithesis -- The "poetic-musical period" and the "evolution" of Wagnerian form: Periode and Entwicklung ; "Evolving" period-complexes and Wagner's evolution: three dialogues -- Endless melodies: Wagner and his critics around 1860 (Wagner's melody--all or none?) ; 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Melody, origins, and utopias of regression (melody as the origin of speech and poetry in Opera and Drama) ; Melody as form -- Motives and motivations: leitmotif and "symphonic" drama: Warum? (motives to musical form) ; The birth of the music drama from the "labor-pains of program music" ; Motif, motive, Motiv: dramatic motivations and "symphonic form" ; Delirium and death as transgressive motives: "dramatic symphony" and "symphonic drama" ; Dénouements (motivic threads, dramatic plots, musical knots and resolutions). 6.
2027/heb07650 hdl
Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883 --Written works.
Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883 --Aesthetics.
Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883. Operas.
--Philosophy and aesthetics.--19th century
Music Musical criticism. Opera.