Metaphysical song : an essay on opera
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Metaphysical song : an essay on opera
（Princeton studies in opera）
Princeton University Press, c1999
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Connecting opera to shifting visions of metaphysics and selfhood across the last four hundred years, this book examines the relationship between the self and metaphysics as described by philosophers from Ficino through Descartes, Kant and Nietzsche, to Adorno. He then argues that opera, in its own right, has brought these subjects to the stage. Among the composers featured are Peri, Wagner, Lully, Verdi, Mozart and Britten. The book details interactions of song, words, drama and sounds used by creators of opera to fill in the outlines of the subjectivities they envisioned.
Table of Contents
Preface II Late Renaissance Opera Excursus 1: A Cosmos of Apollinian Harmony III Early Modern Opera Excursus 2: The Borders of Theatrical Space IV Modern Opera Excursus 3: Noumenal Themes Excursus 4: Composing Schopenhauer V Nietzsche: Overcoming Operatic Metaphysics VI Ghosts in the Machine Excursus 5: Mechanical Reproduction of Opera Excursus 6: Film Fantasy, Endgame of Wagnerism VII The Sum of Modernity Notes Index
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