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Trippett, David, (1980-)

Wagner's melodiesaesthetics and materialism in German musical identity /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Wagner's melodiesby David Trippett.
Reminder of title:	aesthetics and materialism in German musical identity /
Author:	Trippett, David,
Published:	Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2013.
Description:	xiv, 448 p. :ill., digital ;26 cm.
Subject:	MusicPhilosophy and aesthetics.19th century
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139013703
ISBN:	9781139013703$q(electronic bk.)

Wagner's melodiesaesthetics and materialism in German musical identity /
Trippett, David,1980-

Wagner's melodiesaesthetics and materialism in German musical identity /[electronic resource] :by David Trippett. - Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2013. - xiv, 448 p. :ill., digital ;26 cm.

German melody -- Melodielehre? -- Wagner in the melodic workshop -- Excursus : Bellini's Sinnlichkeit, Wagner's Italy -- Hearing voices : Wilhelmine Schroder-Devrient and the Lohengrin recitatives -- Vowels, voices, and "original truth" -- Wagner's material expression.

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.

ISBN: 9781139013703$q(electronic bk.)Subjects--Personal Names:

473740
Wagner, Richard,
1813-1883--Criticism and interpretation.Subjects--Topical Terms:

769115
Music
--Philosophy and aesthetics.--19th century

LC Class. No.: ML410.W13 / T77 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 782.1092

Wagner's melodiesaesthetics and materialism in German musical identity /
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