Unsung Voices Opera and Musical Narrative in the Nineteenth Century - Abbate, Carolyn 1955- (Princeton University Press, 1996)
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Who ""speaks"" to us in The Sorcerer's Apprentice, in Wagner's operas, in a Mahler symphony? In asking this question, Carolyn Abbate opens nineteenth-century operas and instrumental works to new interpretations as she explores the voices projected by music. The nineteenth-century metaphor of music that ""sings"" is thus reanimated in a new context, and Abbate proposes interpretive strategies that ""de-center"" music criticism, that seek the polyphony and dialogism of music, and that celebrate musical gestures often marginalized by conventional music analysis