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Author | : Mark Evan Bonds |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0190068477 |
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The "Beethoven Syndrome" is the inclination of listeners to hear music as the projection of a composer's inner self. This was a radically new way of listening that emerged only after Beethoven's death. Beethoven's music was a catalyst for this change, but only in retrospect, for it was not until after his death that listeners began to hear composers in general--and not just Beethoven--in their works, particularly in their instrumental music. The Beethoven Syndrome: Hearing Music as Autobiography traces the rise, fall, and persistence of this mode of listening from the middle of the eighteenth century to the present. Prior to 1830, composers and audiences alike operated within a framework of rhetoric in which the burden of intelligibility lay squarely on the composer, whose task it was to move listeners in a calculated way. But through a confluence of musical, philosophical, social, and economic changes, the paradigm of expressive objectivity gave way to one of subjectivity in the years around 1830. The framework of rhetoric thus yielded to a framework of hermeneutics: concert-goers no longer perceived composers as orators but as oracles to be deciphered. In the wake of World War I, however, the aesthetics of "New Objectivity" marked a return not only to certain stylistic features of eighteenth-century music but to the earlier concept of expression itself. Objectivity would go on to become the cornerstone of the high modernist aesthetic that dominated the century's middle decades. Masterfully citing a broad array of source material from composers, critics, theorists, and philosophers, Mark Evan Bonds's engaging study reveals how perceptions of subjective expression have endured, leading to the present era of mixed and often conflicting paradigms of listening.
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ISBN | : 9780190068509 |
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Author | : Mark Evan Bonds |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2015-07-28 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0691168059 |
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Before the nineteenth century, instrumental music was considered inferior to vocal music. Kant described wordless music as "more pleasure than culture," and Rousseau dismissed it for its inability to convey concepts. But by the early 1800s, a dramatic shift was under way. Purely instrumental music was now being hailed as a means to knowledge and embraced precisely because of its independence from the limits of language. What had once been perceived as entertainment was heard increasingly as a vehicle of thought. Listening had become a way of knowing. Music as Thought traces the roots of this fundamental shift in attitudes toward listening in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Focusing on responses to the symphony in the age of Beethoven, Mark Evan Bonds draws on contemporary accounts and a range of sources--philosophical, literary, political, and musical--to reveal how this music was experienced by those who heard it first. Music as Thought is a fascinating reinterpretation of the causes and effects of a revolution in listening.
Author | : Mark Evan Bonds |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0190054085 |
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The Scowl -- The Life -- Ideals -- Deafness -- Love -- Money -- Politics -- Composing -- Early-Middle-Late -- The Music -- "Beethoven".
Author | : Mark O'Neill |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
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ISBN | : 9781386068884 |
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Author | : Nicholas Mathew |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1107005892 |
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Political Beethoven explores Beethoven's music as an active participant in political life from the Napoleonic Wars to the present day.
Author | : Walter Heijder |
Publisher | : Independently Published |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2020 |
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ISBN | : 9781086315899 |
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Heijder has taken a completely new and 21st-century approach to the study of the 19th-century genius Beethoven. The book is exciting, convincing and well-founded. We regard this text as an asset that not only conveys the drawbacks associated with Asperger syndrome, but demonstrates its positive aspects, as well. AALTJE VAN ZWEDEN, Papageno Foundation JAAP VAN ZWEDEN, Music Director of the New York Philharmonic
Author | : Mark Evan Bonds |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : MUSIC |
ISBN | : 0190051736 |
Download Ludwig Van Beethoven: a Very Short Introduction Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Despite the ups and downs of his personal life and professional career - even in the face of deafness - Beethoven remained remarkably consistent in his most basic convictions about his art. This inner consistency provides the key to understanding the composer's life and works more than 250 years after his birth in 1770. Beethoven approached music as he approached life, weighing from a variety of perspectives whatever occupied him: a melodic idea, a musical genre, a word or phrase, a friend, a lover, a patron, money, politics, religion. His ability to recognize and unlock so many possibilities from each helps explain the emotional breadth and richness of his output as a whole, from the heaven-storming Ninth Symphony to the eccentric Eighth, and from the arcane Great Fugue to the crowd-pleasing Wellington's Victory. Beethoven's works are a series of variations on his life. The iconic scowl so familiar from later images of the composer is but one of many attitudes he could assume and project through his music. The supposedly characteristic frown and furrowed brow, moreover, came only after his time. Discarding tired myths about the composer, this study proposes a new way of listening to Beethoven by hearing his music as an expression of his entire self, not just his scowling self"--
Author | : Paul Griffiths |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2021-10-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 168137580X |
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Shortlisted for the 2020 Goldsmiths Prize Based on the German composer's own correspondence, this inventive, counterfactual work of historical fiction imagines Beethoven traveling to America to write an oratorio based on the Book of Job. It is a matter of historical record that in 1823 the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston (active to this day) sought to commission Beethoven to write an oratorio. The premise of Paul Griffiths’s ingenious novel is that Beethoven accepted the commission and traveled to the United States to oversee its first performance. Griffiths grants the composer a few extra years of life and, starting with his voyage across the Atlantic and entry into Boston Harbor, chronicles his adventures and misadventures in a new world in which, great man though he is, he finds himself a new man. Relying entirely on historically attested possibilities to develop the plot, Griffiths shows Beethoven learning a form of sign language, struggling to rein in the uncertain inspiration of Reverend Ballou (his designated librettist), and finding a kindred spirit in the widowed Mrs. Hill, all the while keeping his hosts guessing as to whether he will come through with his promised composition. (And just what, the reader also wonders, will this new piece by Beethoven turn out to be?) The book that emerges is an improvisation, as virtuosic as it is delicate, on a historical theme.
Author | : Daniel K L Chua |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2017-07-18 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0199773076 |
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Over the last two centuries, Beethoven's music has been synonymous with the idea of freedom, in particular a freedom embodied in the heroic figure of Prometheus. This image arises from a relatively small circle of heroic works from the composer's middle period, most notably the Eroica Symphony. However, the freedom associated with the Promethean hero has also come under considerably critique by philosophers, theologians and political theorists; its promise of autonomy easily inverts into various forms of authoritarianism, and the sovereign will it champions is not merely a liberating force but a discriminatory one. Beethoven's freedom, then, appears to be increasingly problematic; yet his music is still employed today to mark political events from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the attacks of 9/11. Even more problematic, perhaps, is the fact that this freedom has shaped the reception of Beethoven music to such an extent that we forget that there is another kind of music in his oeuvre that is not heroic, a music that opens the possibility of a freedom yet to be articulated or defined. By exploring the musical philosophy of Theodor W. Adorno through a wide range of the composer's music, Beethoven and Freedom arrives at a markedly different vision of freedom. Author Daniel KL Chua suggests that a more human and fragile concept of freedom can be found in the music that has less to do with the autonomy of the will and its stoical corollary than with questions of human relation, donation, and a yielding to radical alterity. Chua's work makes a major and controversial statement by challenging the current image of Beethoven, and by suggesting an alterior freedom that can speak ethically to the twenty-first century.