The Beethoven syndrome [electronic resource] : hearing music as autobiography / Mark Evan Bonds.
"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 after Beethoven's death. Beethoven's music was a catalyst for this change, but only in retrospect, for it was not until after h...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2020]
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The Beethoven Syndrome: Hearing Music As Autobiography |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
Contents:
- Introduction : The instrumental self
- Part one : The paradigm of objective expression : 1770-1830. The framework of rhetoric ; Toward the perception of subjective expression ; Hearing composers in their work
- Part two : The paradigm of subjective expression : 1830-1920. The framework of hermeneutics ; First-person Beethoven ; After Beethoven
- Part three : Dul paradigms : since 1920. The return of objectivity ; The endurance of subjectivity
- Conclusion : Tracking comets.