The Heroic in Music /

Reconstructs the socio-political history of the heroic in music through case studies spanning the middle ages to the twenty-first century.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Kutschke, Beate (Editor), Butler, Katherine (Editor), Hankeln, Roman, Over, Berthold, Lee, Jonathan Rhodes, Zbikowski, Lawrence, Sánchez-Kisielewska, Olga, Pethö-Vernet, Csilla, Riepe, Juliane, Seinen, Nathan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : Boydell & Brewer, 2022.
Subjects:
Music > History and criticism.
Music > Philosophy and aesthetics.
Musique > Philosophie et esthétique.
Musique > Histoire et critique.
Music
Music > Philosophy and aesthetics
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The Heroic in Music
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Part I. The Configuration of Heroic Music as a Tool for Shaping Moral and Political Identity
  • Holy Heroes
  • The Heroic in Music and the Musicality of the Hero in Late Sixteenth-Century England
  • Virtù eroica: Heroic Music, Social Norms, and Musical Reflections
  • Handel's Heroes
  • Part II. Music, its Ethics and Politics
  • Beyond 'Beethoven Hero'
  • Design Principles for the Musical Heroic
  • Tonal Relationships and Spiritual Heroism in Beethoven's Late Style
  • Music, Content, and Context: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Hungarian Music
  • The Austro-German Heroic in the Music- Hermeneutical Era
  • Part III. Heroic Music and its Moralities in Dictatorships and Post-Heroic Democracies
  • Heroicizing Handel in the Third Reich
  • Soviet War Symphonies and the Heroic Russian Epic
  • 'Someone to Save the Day': Popular Music, Springsteen, and the Circle of Hero Production
  • Émilie du Châtelet, Kaija Saariaho, and Heroes of the Twenty-First Century
  • Afterword
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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