{"product_id":"unsung-voices-9780691026084","title":"Unsung Voices","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWho 'speaks' to us in \"The Sorcerer's Apprentice\", in Wagner's operas, in a Mahler symphony? This title opens nineteenth-century operas and instrumental works to new interpretations as the author explores the voices projected by music.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Abbate establishes a critical dialogue between music's desire to convey narrative information and its sensual resistance to such signification... Abbate is the most original writer on Wagner to appear since Dahlhaus... Her essay 'Brunnhilde Walks by Night' is a tour de force of imaginative interpretation.\"--David Schiff, The New Republic \"This important book concerns not only particular operas but certain general aspects of the way in which we hear music... We will ... want to reflect further on a good many of its arguments ... because what Abbate offers in Unsung Voices is not only ... a set of conclusions but a powerful machine to think with.\"--Lawrence Rosenwald, Opera Quarterly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  CHAPTER ONE Music's Voices  CHAPTER TWO What the Sorcerer Said  CHAPTER THREE Cherubino Uncovered: Reflexivity in Operatic Narration  CHAPTER FOUR Mahler's Deafness: Opera and the Scene of Narration in Todtenfeier  CHAPTER FIVE Wotan's Monologue and the Morality of Musical Narration  CHAPTER SIX Brunnhilde Walks by Night  Notes  Bibliography  Index","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403688124759,"sku":"9780691026084","price":40.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/unsung-voices-9780691026084","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}