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The musical-historical context of the German composer and his world are discussed from the perspectives of musical-stylistic influences, tonal language, relationships with contemporaries, and political contexts. Specific pieces instrumental and operatic are studied from many approaches: structural a
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""Gilliam, perhaps now the leading North American expert on Strauss's operas . . . has assembled a group of authors who collectively present what is undoubtedly a major contribution to Strauss studies."--Scott Warfield, "Notes
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""Gilliam, perhaps now the leading North American expert on Strauss's operas . . . has assembled a group of authors who collectively present what is undoubtedly a major contribution to Strauss studies."--Scott Warfield, "Notes
""What better way for musicology to mark the twentieth century's final, self-questioning stages than . . . to reevaluate Richard Strauss?"--Arnold Whittall, "Times Literary Supplement
""Bryan Gilliam's compilation of essays on Richard Strauss's life and work promises broad scope and exciting reading."--Lydia D. Rohmer, "Brio"
Bryan Gilliam is a Bass Professor in Humanities at Duke University, North Carolina. He is the author of Richard Strauss's Elektra (1996) and The Life of Richard Strauss (Cambridge University Press, 1999) and editor of a number of books, including Music and Performance during the Weimar Republic (Cambridge University Press, 1994) and Music, Image, Gesture (2005). His numerous book chapters and articles include the biographical entry on Richard Strauss in The Revised New Grove Dictionary of Music. He serves on the Strauss editorial board in Munich and has given lectures in the US, Austria, Germany, and the UK.
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- PublisherDuke University Press
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0822312077
- ISBN 13 9780822312079
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages289
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Book Description Hardcover. Pale yellow cloth boards with black lettering; yellow and black illustrated dj, mylar cover; x, 289 pp; bw illustrations and music. "This first English-language volume of musicological essays on Richard Strauss places the German composer in the musical mainstream and situates him among the most influential composers of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Comprehensive and interdisciplinary in approach, this volume examines Strauss's life and work from a number of approaches and during various periods of his eighty-five-year creative life, a career that spanned one of the most remarkable stretches of modern German cultural and political history. The contributors discuss Strauss as a young composer steeped in a conservative instrumental tradition; as a brash young modernist tone poet of the 1890s; as an important composer of twentieth-century German opera; and as a cultural icon manipulated by the national socialists during the 1930s and early 1940s. Other essays compare Strauss and such contemporaries as Mahler and discuss recently discovered sources that shed important light on Strauss's late period of composition. Using Strauss's creative works as a framework for posing larger musicological questions, various themes recur throughout these essays: the tension between narrative and structure in program music and how that problem is reflected in musical analysis; the problem of extended tonality at the turn of the century; the issue of stylistic choice versus stylistic obligation; and new perspectives on progressive versus conservative from the standpoint of postmodernism."-dust jacket. Contents include: Strauss before Liszt and Wagner : some observations / R. Larry Todd -- Miners digging from opposite sides : Mahler, Strauss, and the problem of program music / Stephen E. Hefling -- Extended tonality in Mahler and Strauss / Kofi Agawu -- Ironic allusions to Italian opera in the musical comedies of Richard Strauss / Reinhold Schlötterer -- Strauss and the National Socialists : the debate and its relevance / Pamela M. Potter -- Die Händler und die Kunst : Richard Strauss as composers' advocate / Barbara A. Petersen -- Fiery-pulsed libertine or domestic hero? : Strauss's Don Juan reinvestigated / James Hepokoski -- The concerto for oboe and small orchestra (1945) : remarks about the origin of the work based on a newly discovered source / Günter Brosche -- The metamorphosis of the Metamorphosen : new analytical and source-critical discoveries / Timothy L. Jackson -- The element of time in Der Rosenkavalier / Lewis Lockwood.; Strauss's Intermezzo : innovation and tradition / Bryan Gilliam. VG-/VG- (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block.). Seller Inventory # 185597
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