Unsung Voices
, by Abbate, CarolynNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780691026084 | 0691026084
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 4/1/1996
Who "speaks" to us inThe 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 and dialogism of music, and that celebrate musical gestures often marginalized by conventional music analysis.