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Whose Magic Flute?
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This article argues that determining whose agency is behind the instrument of the magic flute in Mozart's The Magic Flute is crucial to understanding the mode of representation at stake in the opera. This examination is expanded, using Plato's Symposium, to suggest that the role of the flute-player in the opera has a necessary relationship to the practice of interpretation and criticism.
Title: Whose Magic Flute?
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This article argues that determining whose agency is behind the instrument of the magic flute in Mozart's The Magic Flute is crucial to understanding the mode of representation at stake in the opera.
This examination is expanded, using Plato's Symposium, to suggest that the role of the flute-player in the opera has a necessary relationship to the practice of interpretation and criticism.
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