Wagner's Melodies: Aesthetics and Materialism in German Musical Identity

ISBN-13: 9781316618233 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 464 str.

David Trippett

Opis

Wagner's Melodies places the composer's ideas about melody in the context of the scientific discourse of his age.

Recenzje

'Thoroughly original … Trippett reconstructs a polyphonic, virtual dialogue between diverse disciplines, from physics via chemistry to medicine, in which Wagner appears as a virtual rather than real participant, though one to be taken seriously … The book is an enormously illuminating study of discursive contexts from Wagner's theory and practice that reveals the intriguing proximity of Wagner's experiments to the materialist epistemology of contemporary natural science.' Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen, translated from Wagnerspectrum

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. German melody; 2. Melodielehre?; 3. Wagner in the melodic workshop; 4. Hearing voices: Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient and the Lohengrin 'Recitatives'; 5. Vowels, voices, and 'original truth'; 6. Wagner's material expression; Excursus: Bellini's Sinnlichkeit and Wagner's Italy.