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Beethoven Symphonies (Liszt)
Bettina von Arnim
Bildungsroman
Brandeis University
Carolyn Abbate
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Charles Rosen
Composer
Coriolan Overture
Degree (music)
Dialectic
Diegesis
Diminished seventh chord
Edward T. Cone
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Fermata
For Example
German idealism
German Romanticism
Goethe's Faust
Harmonic progression (mathematics)
Heinrich Schenker
Hugo Riemann
Irony
James Webster (musicologist)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Joseph Kerman
Ludwig van Beethoven
Melodic pattern
Metre (music)
Music criticism
Music history
Music Is
Music theory
Musical analysis
Musical composition
Musical expression
Musical History
Musical language
Musical syntax
Musician
Narration
Narrative
Nicholas Boyle
Oboe
Overture
Parody
Phrase (music)
Piano sonatas (Boulez)
Program music
Prolongation
Reinforcement
Rhetoric
Rhythm
Richard Wagner
Romanticism
Susan McClary
Symphony No. 3 (Beethoven)
Symphony No. 40 (Mozart)
Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven)
Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)
The Other Hand
Theodor W. Adorno
Theory
Tonality
Tonic (music)
Triple concerto
Triumphant (Get 'Em)
Tutti
Western culture
Writing
Product details
- ISBN 9780691050584
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 30 Apr 2000
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Scott Burnham is Associate Professor of Music at Princeton University.
