The necessity of music : variations on a German theme

"In The Necessity of Music, Celia Applegate explores the many ways that Germans thought about and made music from the eighteenth- to twentieth-centuries. Rather than focus on familiar stories of composers and their work Applegate illuminates the myriad ways in which music is integral to German...

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Auteur principal : Applegate Celia (Auteur)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : The necessity of music : variations on a German theme / Celia Applegate
Publié : Toronto, Canada, Buffalo, N.Y, London : University of Toronto press , copyright 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xii-402 pages)
Collection : German and european studies ; 26
Titre de l'ensemble : German and European studies vol. 26
Sujets :
  • Part I. Places ; How German is it ? ; Music in place ; Musical itinerancy in a world of nations ; Music at the fairs
  • Part II. People ; Mendelssohn on the road ; A.B. Marx's cosmopolitan nationalism ; Schumann's German nation ; The musical worlds of Brahm's Hamburg
  • Part III. Public and private ; What difference does a nation make? ; Men with trombones ; Women's Wagner ; Hausmusik in the Third Reich ; To be or not to be Wagnerian in Leni Riefenstahl's films ; Saving music.