Unsung Voices: Opera and Musical Narrative in the Nineteenth Century

Who "speaks" to us in The 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.

Author: Carolyn Abbate
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 04/21/1996
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 9.13h x 6.01w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9780691026084

About the Author
Carolyn Abbate is Professor of Music at Princeton University. She is the editor of Analyzing Opera and the author of Richard Wagner: Tristan.