Wagner

Wagner

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

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Author: David Trippett
Number of Pages: 464 pages
Published Date: 04 Aug 2016
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Publication Country: Cambridge, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9781316618233
File size: 14 Mb
File Name: Wagner's.Melodies.Aesthetics.and.Materialism.in.German.Musical.Identity.pdf
Download Link: Wagner's Melodies Aesthetics and Materialism in German Musical Identity
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Since the 1840s, critics have lambasted Wagner for lacking the ability to compose melody. But for him, melody was fundamental - 'music's only form'. This incongruity testifies to the surprising difficulties during the nineteenth century of conceptualizing melody. Despite its indispensable place in opera, contemporary theorists were unable even to agree on a definition for it. In Wagner's Melodies, David Trippett re-examines Wagner's central aesthetic claims, placing the composer's ideas about melody in the context of the scientific discourse of his age: from the emergence of the natural sciences and historical linguistics to sources about music's stimulation of the body and inventions for 'automatic' composition. Interweaving a rich variety of material from the history of science, music theory, music criticism, private correspondence and court reports, Trippett uncovers a new and controversial discourse that placed melody at the apex of artistic self-consciousness and generated problems of urgent dimensions for German music aesthetics.

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