TY  - GEN
AU  -  Grey, Thomas S.
ED  -  American Council of Learned Societies.
TI  -  Wagner's musical prose: texts and conte xts 
T2  -  New perspectives in music history and criticism
PY  - 1995///
CY  -  Cambridge, [U.K.],  New York
PB  -  Cambridge University Press
KW  -  Wagner, Richard,
KW  -  Music
KW  -  19th century
KW  -  Philosophy and aesthetics
KW  -  Musical criticism
KW  -  Opera
N1  -  Includes bibliographical references (p. 380-390) and index;  1;  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? --;  2;  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) --;  3;  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 --;  4;  The "poetic-musical perio d" and the "evolution" of Wagnerian form;  Periode and Entwicklung;  "Evolving" period-complexes and Wagner's evolution: three dialogues --;  5;  Endless melodies;  Wagner and his critics around 1860 (W agner's melody--all or none?);  Melody, origins, and utopias of regression (melody as the origin of speech and poetry in Opera and Drama);  Melody as form --;  6;  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);  Electronic text and image data;  Ann Arbor, Mich.;  University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing;  2010;  Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text;  ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]);  ([New per spectives in music history and criticism]);  Mode of access: Intranet
UR  -  htt p://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.07650
ER  -