A Form of Hope in Richard Strauss's Metamorphosen. (28th May 2021)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- A Form of Hope in Richard Strauss's Metamorphosen. (28th May 2021)
- Main Title:
- A Form of Hope in Richard Strauss's Metamorphosen
- Authors:
- TAN, EMILY X. X.
- Abstract:
- ABSTRACT: Richard Strauss's Metamorphosen was composed in the final months of the Second World War and is often described as the composer's personal elegy for the decline of Western culture. This article presents a new reading of the work which challenges the pessimistic interpretations currently surrounding it. I argue that sonata form and its associated hermeneutic narratives fail to account fully for its structure and suggest instead that Strauss's negotiation and eventual surpassing of this paradigmatic tonal form offers a deeper insight into its meaning. Drawing an analogy between the autonomous musical work and sonata structure on the one hand, and the modern human subject and social ideology on the other, I posit that, as Metamorphosen aims towards the production of a new sense of totality, so the subject finds meaning beyond the ideological limitations of its circumstance.
- Is Part Of:
- Music analysis. Volume 40:Number 1(2021)
- Journal:
- Music analysis
- Issue:
- Volume 40:Number 1(2021)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 40, Issue 1 (2021)
- Year:
- 2021
- Volume:
- 40
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2021-0040-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 82
- Page End:
- 103
- Publication Date:
- 2021-05-28
- Subjects:
- Musical analysis -- Periodicals
781 - Journal URLs:
- http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1468-2249 ↗
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1111/musa.12149 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0262-5245
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- Legaldeposit
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- British Library DSC - 5990.185300
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