Metaphysical Song

An Essay on Opera

By:

Gary Tomlinson

Format:

Paperback / softback

Series:

Princeton Studies in Opera

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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.

Author Biography:

Gary Tomlinson is Annenberg Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania and has held Guggenheim and MacArthur fellowships. His books include Monteverdi and the End of the Renaissance and Music in Renaissance Magic: Toward a Historiography of Others.

Release date NZ

February 21st, 1999

Author

Gary Tomlinson

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

7 halftones 12 music examples

Pages

192

Series

Princeton Studies in Opera

Dimensions

152x229x10

ISBN-13

9780691004099

Product ID

2835970

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