Applegate, Celia.

The Necessity of Music : Variations on a German Theme. - Toronto : University of Toronto Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource (417 pages) - German and European Studies .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Copyright page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Places; 1 How German Is It?; 2 Music in Place; 3 Musical Itinerancy in a World of Nations; 4 Music at the Fairs; Part II: People; 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; Part III: Public and Private; 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.

In The Necessity of Music, Celia Applegate explores the many ways that Germans thought about and made music from the eighteenth- to twentieth-centuries.



9781487511593




Music--Social aspects--Germany.
Music--History and criticism.--Germany


Electronic Books.

ML3917 / .N434 2017