| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 308 pages) : illustrations, music |
| Contents |
Introduction : perspectives on musical monumentality -- The time of musical monuments -- Musical apotheoses -- Sounding souvenirs -- Classical values -- Collective historia -- Faustian descents -- Epilogue : Beethoven's Ninth at the Wall |
| Summary |
A few weeks after the reunification of Germany, Leonard Bernstein raised his baton above the ruins of the Berlin Wall and conducted a special arrangement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. The central statement of the work, that "all men will be brothers," captured the sentiment of those who saw a brighter future for the newly reunited nation. This now-iconic performance is a palpable example of "musical monumentality"--A significant concept which underlies our cultural and ideological understanding of Western art music since the nineteenth-century. Although the concept was fi |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-298) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Sublime, The, in music.
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Music -- Germany -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- International.
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Music
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Sublime, The, in music.
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Germany.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780199736652 |
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0199736650 |
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0199852499 |
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9780199852499 |
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