Who "speaks" to us in The Sorcerer's Apprentice, in Wagner's operas, in a Mahler symphony? In asking this question, Carolyn Abbate opens nineteenth-century operas and instrumental works to new interpretations as she explores the voices projected by music. The nineteenth-century metaphor of music that "sings" is thus reanimated in a new context, and Abbate proposes interpretive strategies that "de-center" music criticism, that seek the polyphony and dialogism of music, and that celebrate musical gestures often marginalized by conventional music analysis.
- ISBN10 0691091404
- ISBN13 9780691091402
- Publish Date 21 April 1991
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 7 August 2001
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Princeton University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 304
- Language English
- URL https://press.princeton.edu/titles/4804.html