David Trippett

Wagner's Melodies

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 794g
• ISBN-13: 9781316618233
• ISBN-10: 1316618234
• Artikelnr.: 44884673

Autorenporträt

David Trippett is a Lecturer in Music at the University of Cambridge. His work on Wagner's music and reception, the history of aesthetics and theories of technology has appeared in various journals including 19th-Century Music, the Journal of Musicology, Musiktheorie, the Cambridge Opera Journal and The Musical Quarterly, and has earned him the Alfred Einstein award of the American Musicological Society. He has also edited and translated texts in music history, including most recently Carl Stumpf's The Origins of Music (2012), and he performs regularly as a collaborative pianist, having given concerts throughout Europe and on both coasts of the USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. German melody
2. Melodielehre?
3. Wagner in the melodic workshop
4. Hearing voices: Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient and the Lohengrin 'Recitatives'
5. Vowels, voices, and 'original truth'
6. Wagner's material expression
Excursus: Bellini's Sinnlichkeit and Wagner's Italy.