TY  - GEN
AU  - Grey,Thomas S.
TI  - Wagner's musical prose: texts and contexts 
T2  - New perspectives in music history and criticism
PY  - 1995///
CY  - Cambridge, [U.K.]
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Wagner, Richard,
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Philosophy and aesthetics
KW  - Music
KW  - Musical criticism
KW  - Opera
N1  - 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; 1; 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? --; 2; 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) --; 3; 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 --; 4; The "poetic-musical period" and the "evolution" of Wagnerian form; Periode and Entwicklung; "Evolving" period-complexes and Wagner's evolution: three dialogues --; 5; Endless melodies; Wagner and his critics around 1860 (Wagner's melody--all or none?); Melody, origins, and utopias of regression (melody as the origin of speech and poetry in Opera and Drama); Melody as form --; 6; 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)
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb07650
ER  -