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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Mark Evan Bonds |
ISBN: | 9780190068479 0190068477 |
OCLC Number: | 1141662056 |
Contents: | Introduction: The Instrumental Self Part 1: The Paradigm of Objective Expression: 1770-1830Chapter 1: The Framework of RhetoricChapter 2: Toward Subjective ExpressionChapter 3: The Composer in the WorkPart 2: The Paradigm of Subjective Expression: 1830-1920Chapter 4: The Framework of HermeneuticsChapter 5: First-Person BeethovenChapter 6: After BeethovenPart 3: Dual Paradigms: Since 1920Chapter 7: The Return of Objectivity Chapter 8: The Endurance of SubjectivityConclusion: Tracking CometsBibliography |
Responsibility: | Mark Evan Bonds. |
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A tour de force of scholarship and argumentation. Reconstructing the changing discourses surrounding music in different decades of European history, Bonds boldly challenges commonly held beliefs about composers "expressing themselves" in music. * James Hepokoski, Henry L. and Lucy G. Moses Professor of Music, Yale University * It is now common to link the tumults of Beethoven's life and the struggles that we hear in his music. In this revelatory book, Bonds draws on an astonishing range of writers to explain how this happened, and how it has affected listeners and composer ever since. * Christopher Reynolds, Distinguished Professor of Music, Emeritus, UC Davis * Read more...

