Research Catalog

Richard Strauss's orchestral music and the German intellectual tradition : the philosophical roots of musical modernism

Title
Richard Strauss's orchestral music and the German intellectual tradition : the philosophical roots of musical modernism / Charles Youmans.
Author
Youmans, Charles Dowell, 1964-
Publication
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2005.

Available Online

Table of contents

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

StatusFormatAccessCall NumberItem Location
TextRequest in advance JME 05-487Offsite

Details

Description
x, 294 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-290) and index.
Contents
The private intellectual context of Strauss's early career. "The conversion" : Strauss and Wagnerism ; Music and the "denial of the will" : Schopenhauer in Strauss's life and work ; Strauss's Nietzsche ; Goethe and the development of Strauss's mature worldview -- Orchestral composition as philosophical critique. The first cycle of tone poems : genesis of a critical musical technique ; Eulenspiegel, Zarathustra, Quixote, Strauss : crystallization of a persona ; Absolute music, twentieth-century aesthetics, and the symphonies of Richard Strauss.
Call Number
JME 05-487
ISBN
0253345731 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2004023224
OCLC
vendor
Author
Youmans, Charles Dowell, 1964-
Title
Richard Strauss's orchestral music and the German intellectual tradition : the philosophical roots of musical modernism / Charles Youmans.
Imprint
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2005.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-290) and index.
Connect to:
Table of contents
Research Call Number
JME 05-487
View in Legacy Catalog