Overview
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.
- | Author: Carolyn Abbate
- | Publisher: Princeton University Press
- | Publication Date: Apr 21, 1996
- | Number of Pages: 304 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0691026084
- | ISBN-13: 9780691026084
