Nineteenth-century music and the German romantic ideology / John Daverio.
| Author/creator | Daverio, John |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Schirmer Books ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, ©1993. |
| Description | xiii, 274 pages : music ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Variant title | 19th-century music and the German romantic ideology |
| Contents | Romantic ideas and romantic music -- Schumann's opus 17 fantasie and the Arabeske. A monument to Beethoven ; New forms ; Leaden arabesques in the Nuremberg style ; Ruins -- Schumann's systems of musical fragments and Witz. Schumann and the incomprehensibility topos ; Schumann and the system of musical fragments: precedents and typology ; Schumann and the system of musical fragments: categories ; "Zusammenhangende abenteuerliche Geschichten" ; Schumann the allegorizer -- Euryanthe and the artwork as critique. A challenge for the historian of reception ; Euryanthe and the Gesamtkunstwerk idea ; Euryanthe in the wilderness -- Brahms and the romantic imperative. "All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigid purity" ; "One might just aw well say that there are infinitely many poetic genres, or that there is only one progressive genre" ; "Up to now, modern poetry has seen no new genres, yet every classical work creates its own genre" -- Wagner's Ring and Universalpoesie. Friedrich Schlegel's romantic manifesto and Wagnerian music drama ; Reflection, the romantic artwork and The Ring ; The Ring as an epic portrayal of interiority ; The Ring as memory preserved -- Tristan, Parsifal, and the "New" organicism. The new mythology and the new organicism ; Tristan and the art of transition ; Parsifal and rhetorical dialectics -- Richard Strauss's Also sprach Zarathustra and the "Union" of poetry and philosophy. Poetry, philosophy, and program music ; "Frei nach Friedrich Nietzsche" ; Finde siecle form. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-268) and index. |
| Other title | 19th-century music and the German romantic ideology. |
| LCCN | 92042513 |
| ISBN | 0028706757 : |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk | ML275 .D38 1993 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |