Music speaks : on the language of opera, dance, and song

Daniel Albright

From Daniel Albright, author of Musicking Shakespeare and Berlioz's Semi-Operas, comes a collection of essays on music and on dance, probing the problems of articulating the meaning(s) of music; the larger question of how music and language interact; how text-setting highlights certain areas of meter, theme, or ironic undertone, and leaves others in darkness; how a musical composition can behave as a critique of a previous composition; and how one might rehabilitate certain underappreciated or much-scorned figures, such as Meyerbeer, by showing that the very terms of invective used against them can be seen, from another angle, as an indication of what is exciting in their work. Albright shows that music history has an aesthetic of its own, and how music history interacts with intellectual history (from Rousseau to Paul de Man). By abutting music against literature and painting, and by juxtaposing the musics of different centuries, Albright frames a particular work, isolating what is arresting and important in it. The essays range widely, but they rarely stray far from opera, for the opera house is the venue where the performances speak the most intricate and significant language invented by our culture--a language that speaks in music, words, pictures, and light. Daniel Albright teaches courses in the English, Comparative Literature, and Music departments at Harvard University.

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書名 Music speaks : on the language of opera, dance, and song
著作者等 Albright, Daniel
シリーズ名 Eastman studies in music
出版元 University of Rochester Press
刊行年月 2009
ページ数 xiv, 218 p.
大きさ 24 cm
ISBN 9781580463249
NCID BB02102920
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言語 英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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