Wagner’s Melodies Aesthetics and Materialism in German Musical Identity 1st Edition by David Trippett ISBN 1107014301 9781107014305

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ISBN 10: 1107014301

ISBN 13: 9781107014305 

Author:  David Trippett 

Since the 1840s, critics have lambasted Wagner for lacking the ability to compose melody. But for him, melody was fundamental – ‘music’s only form’. This incongruity testifies to the surprising difficulties during the nineteenth century of conceptualizing melody. Despite its indispensable place in opera, contemporary theorists were unable even to agree on a definition for it. In Wagner’s Melodies, David Trippett re-examines Wagner’s central aesthetic claims, placing the composer’s ideas about melody in the context of the scientific discourse of his age: from the emergence of the natural sciences and historical linguistics to sources about music’s stimulation of the body and inventions for ‘automatic’ composition. Interweaving a rich variety of material from the history of science, music theory, music criticism, private correspondence and court reports, Trippett uncovers a new and controversial discourse that placed melody at the apex of artistic self-consciousness and generated problems of urgent dimensions for German music aesthetics.

• The first study to link the emergence of the natural sciences and technological thinking to Wagner’s aesthetics of expression
• Interweaves a wide variety of source material from the history of science, music theory, music criticism and aesthetics, including material from private correspondence, newspapers and court reports, as well as published books
• Translates a great many sources into English for the first time and uncovers a new, controversial discourse on melody within nineteenth-century German aesthetics

Table of contents:

Introduction
1. German melody
2. Melodielehre?
3. Wagner in the melodic workshop
4. Hearing voices: Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient and the Lohengrin ‘Recitatives’
5. Vowels, voices, and ‘original truth’
6. Wagner’s material expression
Excursus: Bellini’s Sinnlichkeit and Wagner’s Italy.

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