Format:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (236 p.))
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Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780511482076
Content:
James H. Donelan describes how two poets, a philosopher and a composer – Hölderlin, Wordsworth, Hegel and Beethoven – developed an idea of self-consciousness based on music at the turn of the nineteenth century. This idea became an enduring cultural belief: the understanding of music as an ideal representation of the autonomous creative mind. Against a background of political and cultural upheaval, these four major figures – all born in 1770 – developed this idea in both metaphorical and actual musical structures, thereby establishing both the theory and the practice of asserting self-identity in music. Beethoven still carries the image of the heroic composer today; this book describes how it originated in both his music and in how others responded to him. Bringing together the fields of philosophy, musicology, and literary criticism, Donelan shows how this development emerged from the complex changes in European cultural life taking place between 1795 and 1831
Content:
Self-consciousness and music in the late Enlightenment -- Hölderlin's Deutscher Gesang and the music of poetic self-consciousness -- Hegel's aesthetic theory: self-consciousness and musical material -- Nature, music, and the imagination in Wordsworth's poetry -- Beethoven and musical self-consciousness -- The persistence of sound
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521887618
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521130165
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-052-188-761-8
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521887618
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511482076
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