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After Wagner: Histories of Modernist Music Drama from Parsifal to Nono
Mark Berry
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Description for After Wagner: Histories of Modernist Music Drama from Parsifal to Nono
Hardback. Offers histories of music drama beginning with Wagner's Parsifal and then looking at works by Arnold Schoenberg, Richard Strauss, Luigi Dallapiccola, Luigi Nono and Hans Werner Henze. Num Pages: 325 pages, 12 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: AVGC5; AVGC9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 237 x 26. Weight in Grams: 734.
Offers histories of music drama beginning with Wagner's Parsifal and then looking at works by Arnold Schoenberg, Richard Strauss, Luigi Dallapiccola, Luigi Nono and Hans Werner Henze. This book is both a telling of operatic histories 'after' Richard Wagner, and a philosophical reflection upon the writing of those histories. Historical musicology reckons with intellectual and cultural history, and vice versa. The 'after' of the title denotes chronology, but also harmony and antagonism within a Wagnerian tradition. Parsifal, in which Wagner attempted to go beyond his achievement in the Ring, to write 'after' himself,is followed by two apparent antipodes: the ... Read more
Offers histories of music drama beginning with Wagner's Parsifal and then looking at works by Arnold Schoenberg, Richard Strauss, Luigi Dallapiccola, Luigi Nono and Hans Werner Henze. This book is both a telling of operatic histories 'after' Richard Wagner, and a philosophical reflection upon the writing of those histories. Historical musicology reckons with intellectual and cultural history, and vice versa. The 'after' of the title denotes chronology, but also harmony and antagonism within a Wagnerian tradition. Parsifal, in which Wagner attempted to go beyond his achievement in the Ring, to write 'after' himself,is followed by two apparent antipodes: the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
733g
Number of Pages
325
Place of Publication
Woodbridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843839682
SKU
V9781843839682
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Reviews for After Wagner: Histories of Modernist Music Drama from Parsifal to Nono
Berry presents a wide range of sometimes unconventional interpretations of the works in question..[the book] can be recommended to anyone looking for new ideas about the influence of Wagner on later music dramas.
WAGNERSPECTRUM
Not only a history of opera after Wagner, but an attempt to make a case for Wagner in twenty-first-century composition and performance.
TEMPO ... Read more
WAGNERSPECTRUM
Not only a history of opera after Wagner, but an attempt to make a case for Wagner in twenty-first-century composition and performance.
TEMPO ... Read more