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

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Pilot 2017
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Applegate, Celia ,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]
©2017
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:German and European Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (416 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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