Opera and its Symbols
Subtitle: The Unity of Words, Music and Staging
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: September 10, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780300056617
Subjects: Opera; Symbolism in music; Music/Songbooks; Music; Genres & Styles - Opera; History and criticism; Music / General; Music / Opera; Instruction & Study - General; Reference
First sentence: When Thomas Carlyle wrote in his Sartor Resartus (Boston, 1836) that 'boundless as is the domain of man, it is but a small fractional proportion of it that he rules with Consciousness and by Forethought', and when he added that 'it is through symbols that man, consciously or unconsciously, lives, works and has his being', he was not introducing any novel concepts of philosophy, since there have been thinkers at least since Plato who would have put the matter not much differently.