Carolyn Abbate
Series: Princeton Studies in Opera
Copyright Date: 1991
Published
by: Princeton University Press
Pages: 304
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt13x0rk0
Book Description:
Who "speaks" to us inThe 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.
eISBN: 978-1-4008-4383-1
Subjects: Music