Wagner's Melodies : Aesthetics and Materialism in German Musical Identity EPUB
by David Trippett
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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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- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:02/05/2013
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- ISBN:9781107064966