Michael Cherlin

Varieties of Musical Irony

From Mozart to Mahler

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Sophisticated and engaging, this volume explores and compares musical irony in the works of major composers, from Mozart to Mahler.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 256mm x 180mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9781107141292
• ISBN-10: 110714129X
• Artikelnr.: 48401642

Autorenporträt

Michael Cherlin is Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Minnesota. He has published widely on Schoenberg in particular and is the author of Schoenberg's Musical Imagination (Cambridge, 2007). He also edited Music Theory Spectrum from 2013 to 2015.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Irony as a 'master trope'
2. Varieties of musical irony
3. Mozart's Figaro
4. Heine and irony in the Lied tradition
5. The Jewish face of Mahlerian irony.