Tomlinson Metaphysical Song

An Essay on Opera
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6670-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 12, 192 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Studies in Opera

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Tomlinson, Gary

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Opernmusik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

I Voices of the Invisible 3

II Late Renaissance Opera 9

Excursus 1: A Cosmos of Apollinian Harmony 28

III Early Modern Opera 34

Excursus 2: The Borders of Theatrical Space 68

IV Modern Opera 73

Excursus 3: Noumenal Themes 104

Excursus 4: Composing Schopenhauer 107

V Nietzsche: Overcoming Operatic Metaphysics 109

VI Ghosts in the Machine 127

Excursus 5: Mechanical Reproduction of Opera 143

Excursus 6: Film Fantasy, Endgame of Wagnerism 145

VII The Sum of Modernity 147

Notes 157

Index 181

Über Autor(innen)

Gary Tomlinson is Annenberg Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania and has held Guggenheim and MacArthur fellowships. His books include Monteverdi and the End of the Renaissance and Music in Renaissance Magic: Toward a Historiography of Others.