The event of music history /

This book presents a new theory of how to write music history, and offers an exemplar of this new theory in action, in a series of four chapter-length reflexions on Beethoven's heroic style. The first book-length theory of music history since Carl Dahlhaus's Foundations of Music History, i...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Harper-Scott, J. P. E. (John Paul Edward), 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : The Boydell Press, 2021.
Subjects:
Badiou, Alain.
Beethoven, Ludwig van, > 1770-1827 > Criticism and interpretation.
Beethoven, Ludwig van, > 1770-1827.
Music > Historiography.
Events (Philosophy)
Musicology.
Music > History and criticism.
Musique > Historiographie.
Événement (Philosophie)
Musicologie.
Musique > Histoire et critique.
musicology.
Music.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Front cover
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Music Examples
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Part 1: Towards a Historical Method
  • 1 Music History Since the Fall of the Berlin Wall
  • 2 What is a Subject of Music History?
  • 3 The Absolute Nothingness of Music History
  • Part 2: Reflexions on Beethoven and his Age
  • 4 Beethoven and the Heroic Thing
  • 5 Beethoven's Emergency Brake
  • 6 Glimpsing Beethoven's Truth Content Through Analysis
  • 7 On a Chord in the 'Kreutzer' Sonata
  • Afterword Beethoven's Faithful, Reactive, and Obscure Music
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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