The Heroic in Music.
Beate. Kutschke
Bok Engelsk 2022 · Electronic books.
| Omfang | 1 online resource (303 pages)
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| Opplysninger | 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 -- 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.. - Reconstructs the socio-political history of the heroic in music through case studies spanning the middle ages to the twenty-first century.
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| ISBN | 9781800105072
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