The Galitzin Quartets of Beethoven (eBook)

Opp. 127, 132, 130

Daniel K. L. Chua (Autor)

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2014
294 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6420-1 (ISBN)

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This study is an analysis of the first three of Beethoven's late quartets, Opp. 127, 132, and 130, commissioned by Prince Nikolai Galitzin. The five late quartets, usually considered as a group, were written in the same period as the Missa solemnis and the Ninth Symphony, and are among the composer's most profound musical statements. Daniel K. L. Chua believes that of the five quartets the three that he studies trace a process of disintegration, whereas the last two, Opp. 131 and 135, reintegrate the language that Beethoven himself had destabilized.Through analyses that unearth peculiar features characteristic of the surface and of the deeper structures of the music, Chua interprets the "Galitzin" quartets as radical critiques of both music and society, a view first proposed by Theodore Adorno. From this perspective, the quartets necessarily undo the act of analysis as well, forcing the analytical traditions associated with Schenker and Schoenberg to break up into an eclectic mixture of techniques. Analysis itself thus becomes problematic and has to move in a dialectical and paradoxical fashion in order to trace Beethoven's logic of disintegration. The result is a new way of reading these works that not only reflects the preoccupations of the German Romantics of that time and the poststructuralists of today, but also opens a discussion of cultural, political, and philosophical issues.Originally published in 1995.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.7.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Zusatzinfo: 176 music exs., 2 tables
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
• Schlagworte: aesthetic theory • Aldous Huxley • Alexander Goehr • Alexander Wheelock Thayer • allemande • Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung • Ambiguity • Anacrusis • Antithesis • Anton Webern • Appoggiatura • Arnold Schoenberg • Bagatelle (music) • Bar (music) • Beat (music) • Beethoven and Mozart • Caspar David Friedrich • Cavatina • circle of fifths • Classicism • Composer • Counter-melody • Diabelli Variations • Diatonic function • dissonant • Doctor Faustus (novel) • Domenico Scarlatti • Dona Nobis Pacem • Don Giovanni • Dynamics (music) • Early Music • Eye music • Fermata • Fibonacci • Fiddle • for example • Friedrich Schiller • Gustav Mahler • Hans Keller • Harmony • Haydn and Mozart • Hugo Riemann • James Webster (musicologist) • Johann Sebastian Bach • Joseph de Marliave • Leonard B. Meyer • Leonard Ratner • Ludwig Rellstab • Ludwig van Beethoven • Maestoso • Melodic pattern • Melody • Metre (music) • Milan Kundera • minuet • Missa solemnis (Beethoven) • Modulation (music) • musical analysis • musical language • Music Criticism • Music Is • Nottebohm • Opera buffa • orchestra • Overture • Parody • Philosophy of music • Phrase (music) • Pianissimo • Polyphony • Program music • Prolongation • Quarter note • Quodlibet • Retrograde inversion • Revue • Rhythm • Robert Schumann • Roger Sessions • romantic music • Serialism • soliloquy • stretto • string quartets • Symphonic Poem • Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven) • Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven) • syncopation • The Art of Fugue • The Classical Style • Thematic transformation • The Musical Quarterly • The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians • Theodor W. Adorno • The Well-Tempered Clavier • This Is Music • time signature • tonality • Tonic (music) • Trill (music)
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6420-8 / 1400864208
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6420-1 / 9781400864201