Beethoven Hero (eBook)

Scott Burnham (Autor)

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2020
400 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21588-4 (ISBN)

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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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.8.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
• Schlagworte: Abbate, Carolyn • Adorno, Theodor • Alan Tyson • Ambiguity • Arnold Schoenberg • Beethoven Hero • Beethoven Symphonies (Liszt) • Bettina von Arnim • Bildungsroman • Brandeis University • Byronic hero • canon, in music • Carolyn Abbate • Charles Rosen • Choir • Clarinet • Common chord (music) • Composer • Cone, Edward T. • Coriolan Overture • Dahlhaus, Carl • Degree (music) • Determination • Dialectic • Diegesis • Diminished seventh chord • Edward T. Cone • Elliot Forbes • ergon • Eroica Symphony • Faust • Fermata • Fifth Symphony • Forchert, Arno • for example • German Idealism • German Romanticism • G. Henle Verlag • Goethe's Faust • Greene, David B. • Halm, August • Harmonic progression (mathematics) • Heinrich Schenker • Homer • How music works • Hugo Riemann • Hyer, Brian • Ideology • iliad • Intermezzo (opera) • Irony • James Webster (musicologist) • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • Joseph Kerman • Knittel, Kristin M. • Kretzschmar, Hermann • Lawrence Kramer (musicologist) • Lenz, Wilhelm von • Literature • Lorenz, Alfred • Ludwig Tieck • Ludwig van Beethoven • Mann, Thomas • Maynard Solomon • McClary, Susan • Melodic pattern • Metre (music) • musical analysis • musical composition • musical expression • Musical History • musical language • musical syntax • Music Criticism • Music History • musician • Music Is • music theory • Narration • narration, in music • narrative • Nicholas Boyle • Oboe • Oster, Ernst • Overture • Parody • philosophical methodology • Philosophy • Phrase (music) • Piano sonatas (Boulez) • Princeton University Press • Program music • Prolongation • protagonist, dramatic • Ratner, Leonard • Reinforcement • rhetoric • Rhythm • Richard Wagner • Riemann, Hugo • romantic hero • Romanticism • Rosen, Charles • Schering, Arnold • Schleuning, Peter • Sonata Form • Stanley Sadie • Susan McClary • Symphony No. 3 (Beethoven) • Symphony No. 40 (Mozart) • Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven) • Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven) • The Classical Style • The Feeling • Thematic transformation • Theodor W. Adorno • theory • The Other Hand • The String Quartets • The Telling • tonality • Tonic (music) • Tovey, Donald Francis • treatise • Triple Concerto • Tristan und Isolde • Triumphant (Get 'Em) • tutti • Western Culture • Western music (North America) • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21588-X / 069121588X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21588-4 / 9780691215884