Richard Strauss
Subtitle: an owner's manual
By: David Hurwitz
Series: Unlocking the masters series -- no. 25; Unlocking the masters series -- no. 25.
Publisher: Amadeus Press, an imprint of Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9781574674422
Subjects: Music appreciation; Criticism and interpretation
Description: xi, 186 pages ; 23 cm. +
Notes: Companion CD contains 8 recordings of compositions discussed in the text.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. A first-class second-rate composer?; title: Orchestral music without voices. Symphonies, concertos, and serenades ; Tone poems I : people ; Tone poems II : places and things; title: Theatrical and vocal music (operas, ballets, suites, and songs). Strauss and the German operatic tradition ; The Greek operas : six heroines: Iphigenia, Elektra, Ariadne, Helen, Daphne, and Danae ; Old Vienna (and Paris) : Der Rosenkavalier, Le bourgeois gentilhomme, Schlagobers, Couperin suites, Arabella, and Capriccio ; Exoticism and eroticism : Salome, Josephs Legende, and Die Frau ohne Schatten ; Domestic comedies : Feuersnot, Intermezzo, and Die schweigsame Frau ; War and peace : Friedenstag and Guntram ; Over forty gorgeous songs with orchestra (who knew?); title: Appendix. Starting a Strauss collection.