Wagner's melodies: aesthetics and materialism in German musical identity

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter

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• List of illustrations (page viii)

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• Acknowledgements (page x)

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• A note on presentation (page xii)

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• List of abbreviations (page xiii)

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• Introduction (page 1)

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• 1 German melody (page 12)

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• 2 Melodielehre? (page 69)

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• 3 Wagner in the melodic workshop (page 130)

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• Excursus: Bellini's Sinnlichkeit and Wagner's Italy (page 182)

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• 4 Hearing voices: Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient and the Lohengrin "recitatives" (page 198)

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• 5 Vowels, voices, and "original truth" (page 280)

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• 6 Wagner's material expression (page 330)

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• Epilogue: Turning off the lights (page 393)

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• Appendix A: Books on language in Wagner's Dresden library (page 399)

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• Appendix B: Books on language in Wagner's Wahnfried library (page 402)

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• Select bibliography (page 408)

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• Index (page 439)

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