| Description |
1 online resource (303 pages) |
| Contents |
The Heroic in Music -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I. The Configuration of Heroic Music as a Tool for Shaping Moral and Political Identity -- Holy Heroes -- The Heroic in Music and the Musicality of the Hero in Late Sixteenth-Century England -- Virtù eroica: Heroic Music, Social Norms, and Musical Reflections -- Handel's Heroes -- Part II. Music, its Ethics and Politics -- Beyond 'Beethoven Hero' -- Design Principles for the Musical Heroic -- Tonal Relationships and Spiritual Heroism in Beethoven's Late Style |
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Music, Content, and Context: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Hungarian Music -- The Austro-German Heroic in the Music- Hermeneutical Era -- Part III. Heroic Music and its Moralities in Dictatorships and Post-Heroic Democracies -- Heroicizing Handel in the Third Reich -- Soviet War Symphonies and the Heroic Russian Epic -- 'Someone to Save the Day': Popular Music, Springsteen, and the Circle of Hero Production -- Émilie du Châtelet, Kaija Saariaho, and Heroes of the Twenty-First Century -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Reconstructs the socio-political history of the heroic in music through case studies spanning the middle ages to the twenty-first century |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 04, 2022) |
| Subject |
Music -- History and criticism.
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Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
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MUSIC / History & Criticism.
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Music
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Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kutschke, Beate, editor
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Butler, Katherine, editor
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Hankeln, Roman
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Over, Berthold
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Lee, Jonathan Rhodes
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Zbikowski, Lawrence
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Sánchez-Kisielewska, Olga
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Pethö-Vernet, Csilla
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Riepe, Juliane
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Seinen, Nathan
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| ISBN |
180010507X |
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9781800105065 |
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1800105061 |
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9781800105072 |
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