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The string quartets of Beethoven /

We do not understand music--it understands us. This aphorism by Theodor W. Adorno expresses the quandary and the fascination many listeners have felt in approaching Beethoven's late quartets. No group of compositions occupies a more central position in chamber music, yet the meaning of these wo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kinderman, William
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2006]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Transformational processes in Beethoven's opus 18 quartets / William Kinderman
  • Metrical dissonance and metrical revision in Beethoven's string quartets / Harald Krebs
  • Peak experience : high register and structure in the "Razumovsky" quartets, op. 59 / Malcolm Miller
  • Beethoven's "Harp" quartet : the sketches in context / Lewis Lockwood
  • "Haydns Geist aus Beethovens Händen"? : fantasy and farewell in the quartet in E [flat], op. 74 / Nicholas Marston
  • Aspects of the genesis of Beethoven's string quartet in F minor, op. 95 / Seow-Chin Ong
  • "So träumte mir, ich reiste ... nach Indien" : temporality and mythology in opus 127/I / Birgit Lodes
  • Plenitude as fulfillment : the third movement of Beethoven's string quartet in B [flat], opus 130 / Robert Hatten
  • The genesis of the countersubjects for the Grosse Fuge / William E. Caplin
  • Opus 131 and the uncanny / Joseph Kerman
  • Beethoven's last quartets : threshold to a fourth creative period? / William Kinderman
  • Appendix : chronology and sources of the string quartets.