Necessity of Music

Variations on a German Theme

AvCelia Applegate

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

Del i serien German and European Studies

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In The Necessity of Music, Celia Applegate explores the many ways that Germans thought about and made music from the eighteenth- to twentieth-centuries. Rather than focus on familiar stories of composers and their work Applegate illuminates the myriad ways in which music is integral to German social life. Musical life reflected the polycentric nature of German social and political life, even while it provided many opportunities to experience what was common among Germans. Musical activities also allowed Germans, whether professional musicians, dedicated amateurs, or simply listeners, to participate in European culture. Applegate’s original and fascinating analysis of Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, Wagner, and military music enables the reader to understand music through the experiences of listeners, performers, and institutions. The Necessity of Music demonstrates that playing, experiencing, and interpreting music was a powerful factor that shaped German collective life.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-04-13
Mått:152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt:720 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:German and European Studies
Antal sidor:416
Förlag:University of Toronto Press
ISBN:9781487500689

Utforska kategorier

Musikböcker inom Kultur
Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Konstböcker inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Celia Applegate is the William R. Kenan Jr. Chair in History at Vanderbilt University.

Recensioner i media

"[Applegate] combines the interpretive tools of both historian and musicologist – methodologically, she writes as both, and the readership of this book should encompass both - and she forges an interpretive approach that draws the familiar and the unexpected together." - Philip V. Bohlman, University of Chicago (American Historical Review, Feb 2019) "Focused on the rich contexts of music, rather than on the musical texts themselves (that is, the scores), these essays are essential for scholars interested in the cultural history of music and German national identity across the past three centuries."- Tegan Niziol, University of Toronto (University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018)

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsIntroductionPART I: PLACESChapter 1 How German Is It?Chapter 2 Music in PlaceChapter 3 Musical Itinerancy in a World of NationsChapter 4 Music at the FairsPART II: PEOPLEChapter 5 Mendelssohn on the RoadChapter 6 The Internationalism of Nationalism in the Writings of A. B. Marx.Chapter 7 Schumann’s German NationChapter 8 The Musical Worlds of Brahms’ Hamburg.PART III: PUBLIC AND PRIVATEChapter 9 What Difference does a Nation Make?Chapter 10 Men with TrombonesChapter 11 Women’s WagnerChapter 12 The Past and Present of Hausmusik in the Third ReichChapter 13 To be or not to be Wagnerian in Riefenstahl’s FilmsChapter 14 Saving Music