Music speaks
Subtitle: on the language of opera, dance, and song
By: Daniel Albright.
Series: Eastman studies in music
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9781580463249
Subjects: Opera; Songs -- History and criticism; Music and literature; Dance -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-212) and index.
Table of contents: title: Music's Pentecost, music's stupidity; title: Heine and the composers; title: The diabolical Senta; title: Les Troyens : the undoing of opera; title: Far sounds in Zemlinsky and Schreker; title: Butchering Moses; title: Elliott Carter and poetry : listening to, listening through; title: Sophoclean opera; title: Belletristic music in the twentieth century; title: Golden calves : the role of dance in opera; title: Elephant swan space grace.