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 cele.
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