Beethoven Hero / / Scott Burnham.

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 cr...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©1995
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (400 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • A NOTE TO THE READER
  • BEETHOVEN HERO
  • CHAPTER ONE Beethoven's Hero
  • CHAPTER TWO Musical Values: Presence and Engagement in the Heroic Style
  • CHAPTER THREE Institutional Values: Beethoven and the Theorists
  • CHAPTER FOUR Cultural Values: Beethoven, the Goethezeit, and the Heroic Concept of Self
  • CHAPTER FIVE Beethoven Hero
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX