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Beethoven Hero / Scott Burnham.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©1995Description: 1 online resource (400 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780691215884
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 780.9/2
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- A NOTE TO THE READER -- BEETHOVEN HERO -- CHAPTER ONE Beethoven's Hero -- CHAPTER TWO Musical Values: Presence and Engagement in the Heroic Style -- CHAPTER THREE Institutional Values: Beethoven and the Theorists -- CHAPTER FOUR Cultural Values: Beethoven, the Goethezeit, and the Heroic Concept of Self -- CHAPTER FIVE Beethoven Hero -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Summary: Bringing together reception history, music analysis and criticism, the history of music theory, and the philosophy of music, Beethoven Hero explores the nature and persistence of Beethoven's heroic style. What have we come to value in this music, asks Scott Burnham, and why do generations of critics and analysts hear it in much the same way? Specifically, what is it that fosters the intensity of listener engagement with the heroic style, the often overwhelming sense of identification with its musical process? Starting with the story of heroic quest heard time and again in the first movement of the Eroica Symphony, Burnham suggests that Beethoven's music matters profoundly to its listeners because it projects an empowering sense of self, destiny, and freedom, while modeling ironic self-consciousness. In addition to thus identifying Beethoven's music as an overarching expression of values central to the age of Goethe and Hegel, the author describes and then critiques the process by which the musical values of the heroic style quickly became the controlling model of compositional logic in Western music criticism and analysis. Apart from its importance for students of Beethoven, this book will appeal to those interested in canon formation in the arts and in music as a cultural, ethical, and emotional force--and to anyone concerned with what we want from music and what music does for us.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- A NOTE TO THE READER -- BEETHOVEN HERO -- CHAPTER ONE Beethoven's Hero -- CHAPTER TWO Musical Values: Presence and Engagement in the Heroic Style -- CHAPTER THREE Institutional Values: Beethoven and the Theorists -- CHAPTER FOUR Cultural Values: Beethoven, the Goethezeit, and the Heroic Concept of Self -- CHAPTER FIVE Beethoven Hero -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

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Bringing together reception history, music analysis and criticism, the history of music theory, and the philosophy of music, Beethoven Hero explores the nature and persistence of Beethoven's heroic style. What have we come to value in this music, asks Scott Burnham, and why do generations of critics and analysts hear it in much the same way? Specifically, what is it that fosters the intensity of listener engagement with the heroic style, the often overwhelming sense of identification with its musical process? Starting with the story of heroic quest heard time and again in the first movement of the Eroica Symphony, Burnham suggests that Beethoven's music matters profoundly to its listeners because it projects an empowering sense of self, destiny, and freedom, while modeling ironic self-consciousness. In addition to thus identifying Beethoven's music as an overarching expression of values central to the age of Goethe and Hegel, the author describes and then critiques the process by which the musical values of the heroic style quickly became the controlling model of compositional logic in Western music criticism and analysis. Apart from its importance for students of Beethoven, this book will appeal to those interested in canon formation in the arts and in music as a cultural, ethical, and emotional force--and to anyone concerned with what we want from music and what music does for us.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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