The Necessity of Music : : Variations on a German Theme / / Celia Applegate.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Pilot 2017
• VerfasserIn: Applegate, Celia ,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: German and European Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. How German Is It? --; 2. Music in Place --; 3. Musical Itinerancy in a World of Nations --; 4. Music at the Fairs --; 5. Mendelssohn on the Road --; 6. A.B. Marx's Cosmopolitan Nationalism --; 7. Schumann's German Nation --; 8. The Musical Worlds of Brahms's Hamburg --; 9. What Difference Does a Nation Make? --; 10. Men with Trombones --; 11. Women's Wagner --; 12. Hausmusik in the Third Reich --; 13. To Be or Not to Be Wagnerian in Leni Riefenstahl's Films --; 14. Saving Music --; Notes --; Index --; GERMAN AND EUROPEAN STUDIES
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781487511593; 9783110665949; 9783110638967
• DOI: 10.3138/9781487511593
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Celia Applegate.

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 life. Musical life reflected the polycentric nature of German social and political life, even while it provided many opportunities to experience what was common among Germans. Musical activities also allowed Germans, whether professional musicians, dedicated amateurs, or simply listeners, to participate in European culture. Applegate's original and fascinating analysis of Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, Wagner, and military music enables the reader to understand music through the experiences of listeners, performers, and institutions. The Necessity of Music demonstrates that playing, experiencing, and interpreting music was a powerful factor that shaped German collective life.