Unsung Voices

Opera and Musical Narrative in the Nineteenth Century

Carolyn Abbate

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Persian

Princeton University Pres
01 July 1996

Music; Theory of music & musicology; Classical music (c 1750 to c 1830); Opera

Series: Princeton Studies in Opera

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.

By: Carolyn Abbate
Imprint: Princeton University Pres
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 425g
ISBN: 9780691026084
ISBN 10: 0691026084
Series: Princeton Studies in Opera
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 01 July 1996
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Primary
Language: Persian
Format: Other merchandise
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Unsung Voices: Opera and Musical Narrative in the Nineteenth Century

Abbate establishes a critical dialogue between music's desire to convey narrative information and its sensual resistance to such signification... Abbate is the most original writer on Wagner to appear since Dahlhaus... Her essay 'Brunnhilde Walks by Night' is a tour de force of imaginative interpretation. --David Schiff, The New Republic This important book concerns not only particular operas but certain general aspects of the way in which we hear music... We will ... want to reflect further on a good many of its arguments ... because what Abbate offers in Unsung Voices is not only ... a set of conclusions but a powerful machine to think with. --Lawrence Rosenwald, Opera Quarterly