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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 September 2009
      21 September 1995
      ISBN:
      9780511470301
      9780521417389
      9780521033190
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511470301
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.728kg, 418 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.631kg, 420 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Philosophy: General Interest, Music, Philosophy, Music: General Interest, Music Criticism
      Series:
      New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism (3)
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    Subjects:
    Philosophy: General Interest, Music, Philosophy, Music: General Interest, Music Criticism
    Series:
    New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism (3)
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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.

    Reviews

    "...we are very fortunate to have this new study, which deals with Wagner's writings in an intelligent, authoritative, and probing manner. Thomas S. Grey seems to have read not only everything Wagner wrote but everything written about him from his own day to the present and about the principle aesthetic issues relevant to the Wagner `case.'...the scope and command of Grey's book is...magisterial." The Opera Quarterly

    "This is a serious study that no Wagnerian scholar should ignore." Warren Darcy, Notes

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