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Musical Analyses and Musical Exegesis - The Shepherd's Melody in Richard Wagner's Tristan and Isolde (Hardcover)
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Musical Analyses and Musical Exegesis - The Shepherd's Melody in Richard Wagner's Tristan and Isolde (Hardcover)
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
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Here translated for the first time, Jean-Jacques Nattiez's widely
hailed comparative guide to the techniques of music analysis
focuses on a single vivid passage from Wagner's Tristan and Isolde.
The field of musicology has in recent decades branched out to
incorporate methods from a wide range of other fields. But, when
scholars examine a musical work, to what extent should they
emphasize immanent (purely internal) features, and to what extent
historical, cultural, psychological, or aesthetic networks of
meanings associated with those features? Finally, what specific
analytical method should be chosen, given that various methods can
lead to seemingly incompatible results? Jean-Jacques Nattiez, a
renowned figure in music theory, musicology, and ethnomusicology,
here examines numerous contending approaches that have been applied
to the English-horn melody heard in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde.
His aim is to offer thereby a methodological guide and compendium
that will allow specialists and students alike to navigate the
multiplicity of theoretical orientations in musicology. Analytical
models proposed by Heinrich Schenker, Nicolas Ruwet, Leonard B.
Meyer, Fred Lerdahl, and other notable figures in the field of
music analysis are discussed. Some of the analytical sketches by
these scholars were previously unpublished and are presented to the
public for the first time in the present book. The author also
considers insights from the fields of psychology and
psychoanalysis. An examination of Wagner's wide-ranging musical
sources (Venetian gondolier songs and Swiss shepherd songs) leads
to acutely relevant passages in writings by Rousseau, Goethe, and
Schopenhauer. The book culminates in Nattiez's own interpretation
of the relationship between vocal and instrumental music in Tristan
and Isolde. Jean-Jacques Nattiez is professor emeritus of
musicology at the Universite de Montreal.
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