Analyzing Wagner's Operas

Alfred Lorenz and German Nationalist Ideology

AvStephen McClatchie

Inbunden, Engelska, 1998

Del 10 i serien Eastman Studies in Music

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Beskrivning

An examination of work by the German music theorist, Alfred Lorenz, to explain Wagner's operas and how they fit with German nationalist ideology.The work of the Wagnerian theorist and analyst Alfred Lorenz (1869-1939) has had a profound influence upon both Wagnerian scholarship and music analysis in the twentieth century, and yet it has never been properly evaluated. Analyzing Wagner's Operas outlines the origins and development of the expressive aesthetic in writings by Wagner and others, as well as in early-twentieth-century theories of musical form, and it considers Lorenz's work and contributions in this light. The book also hopes to show, to the extent possible, where Lorenz's work acted as a sort of "musical metaphor" for German nationalist ideology during the Nazi era.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1998-10-25
Mått:386 x 579 x 32 mm
Vikt:598 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Eastman Studies in Music
Antal sidor:260
Förlag:Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN:9781580460231

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Klassisk musik, konstmusik och orkestermusik inom Kultur
Musikvetenskap inom Kultur
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Mer om författaren

STEPHEN MCCLATCHIE is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan.

Recensioner i media

A rich book. It teaches us a great deal about late Romantic aesthetics and Wagnerian analysis, as well as Lorenz's career, his analytic work, and its reception. McClatchie's intelligent and knowledgeable consideration of complex questions about the interactions between ideology, cultural politics, and musical scholarship should challenge us to think as carefully and clearly about such questions whenever and wherever they arise.

Innehållsförteckning

List of FiguresList of Musical ExamplesPrefaceChapter 1. Alfred Lorenz: The Discoverer of Wagnerian FormChapter 2. Aesthetics and Analysis of Form at the Turn of the CenturyChapter 3. Lorenz's AestheticsChapter 4. Lorenz's Analytical Method: The Ring AnalysesChapter 5. The Development of Lorenz's Analytical MethodChapter 6. The Reception of Lorenz's Analytical MethodChapter 7. Alfred Lorenz and German Nationalist IdeologyAppendix 1. Lorenz's Formal TypesAppendix 2. Lorenz's Analysis of the Poetic Musical Periods of Der Ring des NibeungenBibliographyIndex