Music, structure, thought
Subtitle: selected essays
By: James Hepokoski.
Series: Ashgate contemporary thinkers on critical musicology series; Ashgate contemporary thinkers on critical musicology
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Farnham ; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9780754628521
Subjects: Musical analysis; Music appreciation; Opera -- Italy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [xvii]-xx) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Complete bibliography; title: Part 1: Historiography, history, methodology. The Dahlhaus project and its extra-musicological sources ; Beethoven reception: the symphonic tradition ; Some grounding principles of sonata theory; title: Part 2: Italian opera. Ottocento opera as cultural drama: generic mixtures in Il Trovatore ; Staging Verdi's operas: the single "correct" performance ; Operatic stagings: positions and paradoxes: a reply to David J. Levin ; Structure, implication and the end of Suor Angelica ; Un bel dì? Vedremo! Anatomy of a delusion; title: Part 3: Structure and content: Shorter Essays. Formulaic openings in Debussy ; Culture clash ; Masculine/feminine ; Temps perdu; title: Part 4: Symphonic Readings. Fiery-pulsed libertine or domestic hero? Strauss's Don Juan reinvestigated ; Framing Till Eulenspiegel ; Gaudery, romance and the 'Welsh' tune: Introduction and Allegro, Op. 47.