Varieties of Musical Irony: From Mozart to Mahler

ISBN-13: 9781107141292 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 282 str.

Michael Cherlin

Opis

Sophisticated and engaging, this volume explores and compares musical irony in the works of major composers, from Mozart to Mahler.

Recenzje

'What I prize most of all in scholarly writing on music is the author's ability to make me hear and understand compositions and concepts I thought I already knew in new ways. Irony is a slippery, many-sided subject, but Michael Cherlin deftly disentangles and then categorizes its numerous manifestations both in language and in music: irony at the hinge of change, irony in contrapuntal juxtaposition, ironies of irruption or interruption, and much more.' Susan Youens, University of Notre Dame, Indiana

Spis treści

Preface; 1. Irony as a 'master trope'; 2. Varieties of musical irony; 3. Mozart's Figaro; 4. Heine and irony in the Lied tradition; 5. The Jewish face of Mahlerian irony.