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Beethoven Hero

Beethoven Hero


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Bringing together reception history, music analysis and criticism, the history of music theory, and the philosophy of music, this book explores the nature and persistence of Beethoven's heroic style. What have we come to value in this music and why do generations of critics and analysts hear it in 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??;pStarting 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 modelling 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.



Table of Contents:
AcknowledgmentsIntroductionA Note to the ReaderCh. 1Beethoven's Hero3Ch. 2Musical Values: Presence and Engagement in the Heroic Style29Ch. 3Institutional Values: Beethoven and the Theorists66Ch. 4Cultural Values: Beethoven, the Goethezeit, and the Heroic Concept of Self112Ch. 5Beethoven Hero147Notes169Bibliography195Index203

About the Author :

Scott Burnham is Associate Professor of Music at Princeton University.



Review :
Winner of the 1996 Wallace Berry Distinguished Book Award, Society for Music Theory "Strategic economy is a very striking feature of this book, as striking as its breathtaking ambition... Those with intestinal fortitude will find much to ponder, admire, and digest in Beethoven Hero."--New York Review of Books "Scott Burnham's Beethoven Hero is in every respect an exciting new book... Burnham's arguments are well marshaled, his answers ... trenchantly expressed; the previewers quoted on the dust-jacket have every reason to extol the book as both 'courageous' and 'convincing'."--William Drabkin, The Times Literary Supplement "How the composer was able to make his personal quest our quest is ... explored in Beethoven Hero, which is one of those rare Beethoven books written with a verve and passion to approximate its subject."--Charles Michner, The New York Observer


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780691050584
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Princeton University Press
  • Height: 254 mm
  • No of Pages: 400
  • Weight: 394 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0691050589
  • Publisher Date: 30 Apr 2000
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: 03
  • Width: 197 mm


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