Programming the Absolute : : Nineteenth-Century German Music and the Hermeneutics of the Moment / / Berthold Hoeckner.

Programming the Absolute discusses the notorious opposition between absolute and program music as a true dialectic that lies at the heart of nineteenth-century German music. Beginning with Beethoven, Berthold Hoeckner traces the aesthetic problem of musical meaning in works by Schumann, Wagner, Lisz...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]
©2003
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (432 p.) :; 43 musical scores. 3 tables. 11 halftones. 3 line illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures and Table
  • List of Example
  • Preface
  • Introduction. MUSICAL MOMENTS AND THE MOMENT OF GERMAN MUSIC
  • Chapter One. BEETHOVEN'S STAR
  • Chapter Two. SCHUMANN'S DISTANCE
  • Chapter Three. ELSA'S SCREAM
  • Chapter Four. LISZT'S PRAYER
  • Chapter Five. SCHOENBERG'S GAZE
  • Chapter Six. ECHO'S EYES
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index