Unsung Voices by Carolyn Abbate. Opera and Musical Narrative in the Nineteenth Century
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication Date: 1996
Paperback: 288 pages
Book Condition: Very Good.
ISBN 10: 0691026084 / ISBN 13: 9780691026084
Synopsis:
Who "speaks" to us in The 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.
About the Author:
Carolyn Abbate is Professor of Music at Princeton University. She is the editor of Analyzing Opera and the author of Richard Wagner: Tristan.
