After Beethoven : : The Imperative of Originality in the Symphony /

After Beethoven : : The Imperative of Originality in the Symphony / / Mark Evan Bonds.

Beethoven cast a looming shadow over the nineteenth century. For composers he was a model both to emulate and to overcome. "You have no idea how it feels," Brahms confided, "when one always hears such a giant marching behind one." Exploring the response of five composers--Berlioz...

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Bonds, Mark Evan,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (212 p.) :; musical illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Voice of Tradition and the Voice from Within
  • 2. Sinfonia anti-eroica
  • 3. The Flight of Icarus
  • 4. Going to Extremes
  • 5. The Ideology of Genre
  • 6.Ambivalent Elysium
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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