Unsung Voices: Opera and Musical Narrative in the Nineteenth Century

by Carolyn Abbate

Book 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691026084
• ISBN13: 9780691026084
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"