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Beethoven Hero

Name: Beethoven Hero
Brand: Princeton University Press
SKU: 9780691050584
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BEETHOVEN HERO REV/E

Contributor(s): Burnham, Scott Author Format: Paperback

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ISBN	9780691050584
Subtitle	BEETHOVEN HERO REV/E
Publisher	Princeton University Press
Publication date	April 2000
Language	English
MRP	£42.00 GBP
Page count	232
Item weight	77 g

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.

Beethoven Hero

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Burnham, Scott Author

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