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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 /
Author:
Youmans, Charles Dowell, 1964-
Format:
Book
Institution:
New England Conservatory
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.
Online access:
No online access
Library holdings:
New England Conservatory Spaulding Library
ML410.S79 Y68 – Available