Music Speaks: On the Language of Opera, Dance, and Song

Daniel Albright

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Music Speaks

On the Language of Opera, Dance, and Song

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Daniel Albright, Harvard University, Massachusetts

Publisher:: Boydell & Brewer
Online publication date:: March 2023
Print publication year:: 2009
Online ISBN:: 9781580467292
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781580467292

Series:: Eastman Studies in Music
Subjects:: Music, Music: General Interest

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Explores the meaning[s] of music, the most intricate and significant language invented by our culture.

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On the Language of Opera, Dance, and Song

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of Illustrations
pp vii-x

Note on the Text
pp xi-xii

Preface
pp xiii-xiv

Part One - Music
pp 1-2

Chapter One - Music’s Pentecost, Music’s Stupidity
pp 3-14

Chapter Two - Heine and the Composers
pp 15-38

Chapter Three - The Diabolical Senta
pp 39-57

Chapter Four - Les Troyens: The Undoing of Opera
pp 58-71

Chapter Five - Far Sounds in Zemlinsky and Schreker
pp 72-93

Chapter Six - Butchering Moses
pp 94-104

Chapter Seven - Elliott Carter and Poetry: Listening to, Listening Through
pp 105-121

Chapter Eight - Sophoclean Opera
pp 122-144

Chapter Nine - Belletristic Music in the Twentieth Century
pp 145-160

Part Two - Dance
pp 161-162

Chapter Ten - Golden Calves: The Role of Dance in Opera
pp 163-177

Chapter - Elephant Swan Space Grace
pp 178-196

Notes
pp 197-208

Selected Bibliography
pp 209-212

Index
pp 213-218

Eastman Studies in Music
pp 219-222

Miscellaneous Endmatter
pp 223-224

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