Title Varieties of musical irony : from Mozart to Mahler / Michael Cherlin

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017 ©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 266 pages) : music Contents Cover; Half-title ; Title page ; Copyright information ; Dedication ; Table of contents ; List of Musical Examples ; Praeludium ; Preface ; End Notes ; 1 Irony as a ''Master Trope'' ; End Notes ; 2 Varieties of Musical Irony ; Irony at the Hinge Where Movements or Sections Change Irony Within a Contrapuntal Juxtaposition Ironies of Irruption or Interruption ; When Music is Performed, Quoted, or Restated in a Context that Induces a Sense of Irony Irony where the music lies against the text (tells us not to believe what is being said) or where the words or situations lie against the music (where, e.g., the optimism or joy of the music is not to be believed). Dramatic Irony ; Peripeteia -- Tragic Ironies of Reversal Ironies of Distancing, Detachment, and Isolation Making the Repulsive Attractive ; Irony in Parody ; Irony in the Way a Piece Presses Up Against Its Precursor ; Ironies Unstated ; Ironies of Undecidables ; End Notes ; 3 Mozart's Figaro Ironies in the Dances Embedded in the Finale to Act II Ironies in Two Comic Ensembles: The Trio from Act I and the Sextet from Act III ; End Notes ; 4 Heine and Irony in the Lied Tradition ; Strophe, Turn, Return, and Carrying On ; Three Setting of Heine by Schubert Summary Sophisticated and engaging, this volume explores and compares musical irony in the works of major composers, from Mozart to Mahler Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791 -- Criticism and interpretation Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828 -- Criticism and interpretation Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856 -- Criticism and interpretation Heine, Heinrich, 1797-1856 -- Criticism and interpretation Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911 -- Criticism and interpretation Heine, Heinrich, 1797-1856 Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911 Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791 Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828 Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856 Irony in music. MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory. Irony in music Ironie Musik Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 1108502032 9781108502030 9781108502153 1108502156 9781316493441 131649344X 9781108501675 1108501672

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