TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hoeckner,Berthold
TI  - Programming the Absolute: Nineteenth-Century German Music and the Hermeneutics of the Moment 
SN  - 9780691227566
AV  - ML3854 
U1  - 780/.943/09034 21
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Absolute music
KW  - Music
KW  - Germany
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Philosophy and aesthetics
KW  - MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Auschwitz
KW  - Brinkmann, Reinhold
KW  - Buchanan, Herbert
KW  - Danuser, Hermann
KW  - Expressionism
KW  - Frank, Hermann
KW  - Goebbels, Joseph
KW  - Huyssen, Andreas
KW  - Jansen, Gustav
KW  - Kierkegaard, Soren
KW  - Klauwell, Otto
KW  - Lewis, Christopher
KW  - Liszt, Adam
KW  - Malin, Yonathan
KW  - Momentform
KW  - Pederson, Sanna
KW  - Rellstab, Friedrich
KW  - Schleiermacher, Friedrich
KW  - Schopenhauer, Artur
KW  - Szondi, Peter
KW  - Tiedemann, Rolf
KW  - Tomlinson, Gary
KW  - Voigt, Henriette
KW  - Wagner, Cosima
KW  - Walter, Bruno
KW  - Wellbery, David
KW  - Winckelmann, Johann Joachim
KW  - Witz
KW  - Zuidervaart, Lambert
KW  - absolute, as detachment
KW  - actio in distans
KW  - aesthetic appearance
KW  - aesthetics of Argus-eyedness
KW  - apparition
KW  - arabesque
KW  - caesura
KW  - constellation
KW  - criticism, hermeneutic
KW  - dialectics at a standstill
KW  - dying sound
KW  - ekphrasis
KW  - fragment
KW  - hermeneutic circle
KW  - hermeneutics of the moment
KW  - historicism
KW  - ineffability
KW  - modernity
KW  - organicism
KW  - postmodernism
KW  - program music
KW  - truth
KW  - utopia
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Figures and Table --; List of Example --; Preface --; Introduction. MUSICAL MOMENTS AND THE MOMENT OF GERMAN MUSIC --; Chapter One. BEETHOVEN'S STAR --; Chapter Two. SCHUMANN'S DISTANCE --; Chapter Three. ELSA'S SCREAM --; Chapter Four. LISZT'S PRAYER --; Chapter Five. SCHOENBERG'S GAZE --; Chapter Six. ECHO'S EYES --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Programming the Absolute discusses the notorious opposition between absolute and program music as a true dialectic that lies at the heart of nineteenth-century German music. Beginning with Beethoven, Berthold Hoeckner traces the aesthetic problem of musical meaning in works by Schumann, Wagner, Liszt, Mahler, and Schoenberg, whose private messages and public predicaments are emblematic for the cultural legacy of this rich repertory. After Romanticism had elevated music as a language "beyond" language, the ineffable spurred an unprecedented proliferation of musical analysis and criticism. Taking his cue from Adorno, Hoeckner develops the idea of a "hermeneutics of a moment," which holds that musical meaning crystallizes only momentarily--in a particular passage, a progression, even a single note. And such moments can signify as little as a fleeting personal memory or as much as the whole of German music. Although absolute music emerged with a matrix of values--the integrity of the subject, the aesthetic autonomy of art, and the intrinsic worth of high culture--that are highly contested in musicology today, Hoeckner argues that we should not completely discard the ideal of a music that continues to offer moments of transcendence and liberation. Passionately and artfully written, Hoeckner's quest for an "essayistic musicology" displays an original intelligence willing to take interpretive risks. It is a provocative contribution to our knowledge about some of Europe's most important music--and to contemporary controversies over how music should be understood and experienced
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691227566?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691227566
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691227566/original
ER  -