The necessity of music : variations on a German theme /
In The necessity of music, Celia Applegate explores the many ways that Germans thought about and made music from the eighteenth- to twentieth-centuries. Rather than focus on familiar stories of composers and their work Applegate illuminates the myriad ways in which music is integral to German social...
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Toronto ; Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Places
- How German is it?
- Music in place
- Musical itinerancy in a world of nations
- Music at the fairs
- Part II. People
- Mendelssohn on the road
- A.B. Marx's cosmopolitan nationalism
- Schumann's German nation
- The musical worlds of Brahm's Hamburg
- Part III. Public and private
- What difference does a nation make?
- Men with trombones
- Women's Wagner
- Hausmusik in the Third Reich
- To be or not to be Wagnerian in Leni Riefenstahl's films
- Saving music.