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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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.