@article{Thorau2020,
  author    = {Thorau, Christian},
  title     = {Listening for leitmotifs},
  series = {The Cambridge companion to Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen},
  journal   = {The Cambridge companion to Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen},
  publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
  address   = {Cambridge},
  isbn      = {978-1-107-51947-3},
  doi       = {10.1017/9781316258033.007},
  pages     = {124 -- 140},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {Introduction to Wagner's use of leitmotifs in the Ring and the discourse that accompanied and shaped the notion of this compositional technique from its beginnings. Special focus on the making of the concept (which Wagner neither initiated nor supported), on the idea of "foreboding and reminiscent melodic moments" he developed in Opera and Drama and on core motifs from the Ring that provide the material for four evenings of music drama and characterize the tetralogy as a whole (renunciation, woe, Rheingold, Ring, Valhalla, and redemption through love motifs). Aesthetic questions about Wagner's trademark tool of composition are discussed from the listener's perspective: Are we really supposed to learn leitmotifs like vocabulary and, if so, what did Wagner think about this? Did he anticipate that for the next 140 years nearly everyone who wanted to say something about his music would talk about leitmotifs? How can we dive into the magic web of the Ring's leitmotifs without simply blindly memorizing dozens of melodies and their supposed meaning?},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Thorau2011,
  author    = {Thorau, Christian},
  title     = {Eine Sitzung des Museums um das Jahr 1830 - Inszeniertes H{\"o}hren als angewandte Musikwissenschaft (Projektbericht)},
  isbn      = {978-3-940768-07-0},
  year      = {2011},
  language  = {de}
}
@article{Thorau2012,
  author    = {Thorau, Christian},
  title     = {Psssst! - In search of the listeners of the past},
  series = {Neue Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Musik},
  journal   = {Neue Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Musik},
  number    = {5},
  publisher = {Schott},
  address   = {Mainz},
  issn      = {0945-6945},
  pages     = {18 -- 22},
  year      = {2012},
  language  = {de}
}
@book{Thorau2012,
  author    = {Thorau, Christian},
  title     = {Vom Klang zur Metapher : Perspektiven der musikalischen Analyse},
  series = {Studien und Materialien zur Musikwissenschaft},
  volume    = {71},
  journal   = {Studien und Materialien zur Musikwissenschaft},
  publisher = {Olms},
  address   = {Hildesheim},
  isbn      = {978-3-487-14895-3},
  pages     = {287 S.},
  year      = {2012},
  language  = {de}
}
@incollection{Thorau2019,
  author    = {Thorau, Christian},
  title     = {"What ought to be heard" : touristic listening and the guided ear},
  series = {The Oxford handbook of music listening in the 19th and 20th centuries},
  booktitle = {The Oxford handbook of music listening in the 19th and 20th centuries},
  publisher = {Oxford University Press},
  address   = {New York},
  isbn      = {978-0-19-046696-1},
  pages     = {207 -- 227},
  year      = {2019},
  language  = {en}
}