Grey, Thomas S. <br/><br/>
Wagner's musical prose   texts and conte xts /   [electronic resource] : 
Thomas S. Grey. 
 - Cambridge, [U.K.] ;   New York :   Cambridge University Press,   c1995. 
 - xix, 397 p. :   music ;   24 cm. 
 - New perspectives in music history and criticism .
 - New perspectives in music history and criticism. ACLS Humanities E-Book. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 380-390) and index. 
<br/><br/>  Wagner and the problematics of "absolute music" in the ninetee nth century:   Ideas of absolute music ;   Questions of autonomy ;   Content and/or/as form ;   Absolute music and "ideas: a new determ inacy? --   Beethoven reception and the hermeneutic impulse: "po etic ideas" and new forms:   Beethoven's "poetic ideas": notes on the genesis of a critical tradition ;   Poetics, heroics, funérailles ;   Fear of the Fifth: the uncanniness of instrumental speech ;   Beet hoven's "sketches" (poetic intentions and musical consequences) --   Engendering music drama: Opera and Drama and its metaphors:   Met aphors of gender, and others;   Natural sciences: reproductive biology and a theory of "evolution";   Music mastered, poetic reason (nearly) seduced: allegory and antithesis --   The "poetic-musical perio d" and the "evolution" of Wagnerian form:   Periode and Entwicklung ;   "Evolving" period-complexes and Wagner's evolution: three dialogues --   Endless melodies:   Wagner and his critics around 1860 (W agner's melody--all or none?) ;   1.   2.   3 .   4.   5.   Melody, origins, and utopias of regression (melody as the origin of speech and poetry in Opera and Drama) ;   Melody as form --   M otives and motivations: leitmotif and "symphonic" drama:   Warum? (mot ives to musical form) ;   The birth of the music drama from the "labor -pains of program music" ;   Motif, motive, Motiv: dramatic motivation s and "symphonic form" ;   Delirium and death as transgressive motives : "dramatic symphony" and "symphonic drama" ;   Dénouements (motivic threads, dramatic plots, musical knots and resolutions).   6. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/> Wagner, Richard,  1813-1883 -- Written works.<br/> Wagner, Richard,  1813-1883 -- Aesthetics.<br/> Wagner, Richard,  1813-1883.   Operas. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/> Music-- Philosophy and aesthetics.-- 19th century<br/> Musical criticism.<br/> Opera.