The event of music history /
"This book presents a new theory of how to write music history, and offers an exemplar of this new theory in action, in a series of four chapter-length reflexions on Beethoven's heroic style, the first book-length theory of music history since Carl Dahlhaus's Foundations of music hist...
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Woodbridge :
The Boydell Press,
2021
Woodbridge ; Rochester, NY : 2021 |
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1: Towards a historical method. Music history since the fall of the Berlin Wall ; What is the subject of music history? ; The absolute nothingness of music history
- Part 2: Reflexions on Beethoven and his age. Beethoven and the heroic thing ; Beethoven's emergency brake ; Glimpsing Beethoven's truth content through analysis ; On a chord in the 'Kreutzer' sonata
- Afterword: Beethoven's faithful, reactive, and obscure music