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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    08 October 2020
    29 October 2020
    ISBN:
    9781108379939
    9781108422000
    9781108434461
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108379939
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.76kg, 392 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.58kg, 394 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Music, Music, Music: General Interest, Nineteenth-Century Music
    Series:
    Composers in Context
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    Subjects:
    Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Music, Music, Music: General Interest, Nineteenth-Century Music
    Series:
    Composers in Context
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    Richard Strauss in Context offers a distinctive approach to the study of a composer in that it places the emphasis on contextualizing topics rather than on biography and artistic output. One might say that it inverts the relationship between composer and context. Rather than studies of Strauss's librettists that discuss the texts themselves and his musical settings, for instance, this book offers essays on the writers themselves: their biographical circumstances, styles, landmark works, and broader positions in literary history. Likewise, Strauss's contributions to the concert hall are positioned within the broader development of the orchestra and trends in programmatic music. In short, readers will benefit from an elaboration of material that is either absent from or treated only briefly in existing publications. Through this supplemental and broader contextual approach, this book serves as a valuable and unique resource for students, scholars, and a general readership.

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    ‘The essays are excellent and sure to be of interest to readers at all levels … Highly recommended.’

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