Wagner's musical prose : texts and contexts /

Wagner's musical prose : texts and contexts /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Grey, Thomas S.
Imprint:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Description:	xix, 397 p. : music ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	New perspectives in music history and criticism
Subject:	Wagner, Richard, -- 1813-1883 -- Written works. Wagner, Richard, -- 1813-1883 -- Aesthetics. Wagner, Richard, -- 1813-1883. -- Operas. Wagner, Richard, -- 1813-1883 Operas (Wagner, Richard) Music -- 19th century -- Philosophy and aesthetics. Musical criticism. Opera. Aesthetics. Authorship. Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics. Musical criticism. Opera.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2411960

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ISBN:	0521417384
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 380-390) and index.

Table of Contents:

Preface
1. Wagner and the problematics of -absolute music- in the nineteenth century
2. Beethoven reception and the hermeneutic impulse: 'poetic ideas' and new forms
3. Engendering music drama: Opera and Drama and its metaphors
4. The -poetic-musical period- and the -evolution- of Wagnerian form
5. Endless melodies
6. Motive and motivations: leitmotif and -symphonic- drama
Appendices
Bibliography
Index