Thesis
Parody lost and regained
- Alternative title:
- Richard Strauss's double voices
- Abstract:
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This thesis argues the case for the parodic voice in a range of works by Richard Strauss. In doing so, it challenges the long-held view of Strauss as a composer whose music has little to offer beyond superficial grandeur and shallow sentimentality; music which may be impressive in some respects but, ultimately, remains stubbornly one-dimensional. Parody — a double-voiced device — plays with texts and subtexts and, by definition, insists upon the presence of dimensions additional to the on...
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Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 2004
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
- Source identifiers:
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602336389
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Subjects:
- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- td:602336389
- Deposit date:
- 2014-04-01
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- Copyright holder:
- Robert Raphael Gibson
- Copyright date:
- 2004
- Notes:
- This thesis was digitised thanks to the generosity of Dr Leonard Polonsky.
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