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RICHARD STRAUSS IN CONTEXT RichardStraussinContextoffersadistinctiveapproachtothestudyof a composer, placing the emphasis on contextualizing topics rather thanonbiographyandartistic output.One mightsaythatitinverts the relationship between composer and context. Rather than studies of Strauss’s librettists that discuss the texts and his musical settings, for instance, this book offers essays on the writers themselves: their biographical circumstances, styles, landmark works, and broader positions in literary history. Likewise, Strauss’s contributions to the concert hall are positioned within the broader development of the orchestra and trends in programmatic music. In short, readers will benefit from an elaboration of material that is either absent from or treatedonlybrieflyinexistingpublications.Withitscontextuallyrich approach, this book serves as a valuable and unique resource for students, scholars, and ageneral readership. is Associate Professor of Musicology and director of the music program at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. In addition to conference papers and journal articles on Richard Strauss and fin-de-siècle German opera, he has authored program notes for theSalzburg Festival. . is Associate Professor of Music at Texas A&M University-Kingsville where he also serves as director of an annual studyabroadprograminVienna.HisresearchareasincludeGerman opera and the fin de siècle, and he previously coedited Genetic Criticism andthe Creative Process (). Published online by Cambridge University Press Understanding and appreciation of musical works isgreatly enhanced by knowl- edgeofthecontextwithinwhichtheircomposerslivedandworked.Eachofthese volumesfocusesonanindividualcomposer,offeringlively,accessible,andconcise essaysbyleadingscholarsonthemanycontexts–professional,political,intellec- tual,social,andcultural–thathaveabearingonhisorherwork.Biographicaland musicalinfluences, performance andpublishinghistory, and thecreative afterlife ofeachcomposer’sworkarealsoaddressed,providingreaderswithamulti-faceted view of how the composers’ output and careers were shaped by the world around them. Titles forthcomingin the series Beethoven inContext, edited by and . Liszt in Context, edited by Mahler in Context, edited by Stravinsky inContext,edited by Published online by Cambridge University Press RICHARD STRAUSS IN CONTEXT MORTEN KRISTIANSEN XavierUniversity JOSEPH E. JONES TexasA&MUniversity-Kingsville Published online by Cambridge University Press UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridge,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,thFloor,NewYork,,USA WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,VIC,Australia –,rdFloor,Plot,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre,NewDelhi–,India AnsonRoad,#-/,Singapore CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/ :./ ©CambridgeUniversityPress Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished PrintedintheUnitedKingdombyTJInternationalLtd,PadstowCornwall AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData :Kristiansen,Morten,editor.|Jones,JosephE.,editor. :RichardStraussincontext/editedbyMortenKristiansen,JosephE.Jones. :[.]|NewYork:CambridgeUniversityPress,.| :Composersincontext|Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. :(print)|(ebook)| (hardback)|(paperback)|(epub) ::Strauss,Richard,-–Criticismandinterpretation.| Strauss,Richard,––Friendsandassociates.|Musicians–Germany. :.(print)|.S(ebook)| .–dc LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/ LCebookrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/ ----Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracy ofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. Published online by Cambridge University Press RICHARD STRAUSS IN CONTEXT RichardStraussinContextoffersadistinctiveapproachtothestudyof a composer, placing the emphasis on contextualizing topics rather thanonbiographyandartistic output.One mightsaythatitinverts the relationship between composer and context. Rather than studies of Strauss’s librettists that discuss the texts and his musical settings, for instance, this book offers essays on the writers themselves: their biographical circumstances, styles, landmark works, and broader positions in literary history. Likewise, Strauss’s contributions to the concert hall are positioned within the broader development of the orchestra and trends in programmatic music. In short, readers will benefit from an elaboration of material that is either absent from or treatedonlybrieflyinexistingpublications.Withitscontextuallyrich approach, this book serves as a valuable and unique resource for students, scholars, and ageneral readership. is Associate Professor of Musicology and director of the music program at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. In addition to conference papers and journal articles on Richard Strauss and fin-de-siècle German opera, he has authored program notes for theSalzburg Festival. . is Associate Professor of Music at Texas A&M University-Kingsville where he also serves as director of an annual studyabroadprograminVienna.HisresearchareasincludeGerman opera and the fin de siècle, and he previously coedited Genetic Criticism andthe Creative Process (). Published online by Cambridge University Press Understanding and appreciation of musical works isgreatly enhanced by knowl- edgeofthecontextwithinwhichtheircomposerslivedandworked.Eachofthese volumesfocusesonanindividualcomposer,offeringlively,accessible,andconcise essaysbyleadingscholarsonthemanycontexts–professional,political,intellec- tual,social,andcultural–thathaveabearingonhisorherwork.Biographicaland musicalinfluences, performance andpublishinghistory, and thecreative afterlife ofeachcomposer’sworkarealsoaddressed,providingreaderswithamulti-faceted view of how the composers’ output and careers were shaped by the world around them. Titles forthcomingin the series Beethoven inContext, edited by and . Liszt in Context, edited by Mahler in Context, edited by Stravinsky inContext,edited by Published online by Cambridge University Press RICHARD STRAUSS IN CONTEXT MORTEN KRISTIANSEN XavierUniversity JOSEPH E. JONES TexasA&MUniversity-Kingsville Published online by Cambridge University Press UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridge,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,thFloor,NewYork,,USA WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,VIC,Australia –,rdFloor,Plot,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre,NewDelhi–,India AnsonRoad,#-/,Singapore CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/ :./ ©CambridgeUniversityPress Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished PrintedintheUnitedKingdombyTJInternationalLtd,PadstowCornwall AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData :Kristiansen,Morten,editor.|Jones,JosephE.,editor. :RichardStraussincontext/editedbyMortenKristiansen,JosephE.Jones. :[.]|NewYork:CambridgeUniversityPress,.| :Composersincontext|Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. :(print)|(ebook)| (hardback)|(paperback)|(epub) ::Strauss,Richard,-–Criticismandinterpretation.| Strauss,Richard,––Friendsandassociates.|Musicians–Germany. :.(print)|.S(ebook)| .–dc LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/ LCebookrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/ ----Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracy ofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. Published online by Cambridge University Press RICHARD STRAUSS IN CONTEXT RichardStraussinContextoffersadistinctiveapproachtothestudyof a composer, placing the emphasis on contextualizing topics rather thanonbiographyandartistic output.One mightsaythatitinverts the relationship between composer and context. Rather than studies of Strauss’s librettists that discuss the texts and his musical settings, for instance, this book offers essays on the writers themselves: their biographical circumstances, styles, landmark works, and broader positions in literary history. Likewise, Strauss’s contributions to the concert hall are positioned within the broader development of the orchestra and trends in programmatic music. In short, readers will benefit from an elaboration of material that is either absent from or treatedonlybrieflyinexistingpublications.Withitscontextuallyrich approach, this book serves as a valuable and unique resource for students, scholars, and ageneral readership. is Associate Professor of Musicology and director of the music program at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. In addition to conference papers and journal articles on Richard Strauss and fin-de-siècle German opera, he has authored program notes for theSalzburg Festival. . is Associate Professor of Music at Texas A&M University-Kingsville where he also serves as director of an annual studyabroadprograminVienna.HisresearchareasincludeGerman opera and the fin de siècle, and he previously coedited Genetic Criticism andthe Creative Process (). Published online by Cambridge University Press Understanding and appreciation of musical works isgreatly enhanced by knowl- edgeofthecontextwithinwhichtheircomposerslivedandworked.Eachofthese volumesfocusesonanindividualcomposer,offeringlively,accessible,andconcise essaysbyleadingscholarsonthemanycontexts–professional,political,intellec- tual,social,andcultural–thathaveabearingonhisorherwork.Biographicaland musicalinfluences, performance andpublishinghistory, and thecreative afterlife ofeachcomposer’sworkarealsoaddressed,providingreaderswithamulti-faceted view of how the composers’ output and careers were shaped by the world around them. Titles forthcomingin the series Beethoven inContext, edited by and . Liszt in Context, edited by Mahler in Context, edited by Stravinsky inContext,edited by Published online by Cambridge University Press
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