Wagner's Melodies

Wagner's Melodies
Author: David Trippett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 463
Release: 2013-05-02
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1107067286


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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.


Wagner's Melodies
Language: en
Pages: 463
Authors: David Trippett
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-05-02 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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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 incong
Wagner's Melodies
Language: en
Pages: 463
Authors: David Trippett
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-05-02 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Wagner's Melodies places the composer's ideas about melody in the context of the scientific discourse of his age.
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