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Music and Monumentality - Commemoration and Wonderment in Nineteenth Century Germany (Hardcover)
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Music and Monumentality - Commemoration and Wonderment in Nineteenth Century Germany (Hardcover)
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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 first raised
in the earliest years of musicological study in the 1930s, a
satisfying exploration of the "monumental" in music has not yet
been made. Alexander Rehding, one of the brightest young stars in
the field, takes on the task in Music and Monumentality, an
elegant, thorough treatment that will serve as a foundation for all
future discussion in this area.
Rehding sets his focus on the main players of the period within
the Austro-German repertoire -Beethoven, Liszt, Wagner, Brahms,
Bruckner and Mahler- as he unpacks a two-fold definition of
"musical monumentality." In the conventional sense, monumentality
is a stylistic property often described as 'grand, ' 'uplifting, '
and 'sublime' and rife with overpowering brass chorales, sparkling
string tremolos, triumphant fanfares, and glorious thematic
returns. Yet Rehding sees the monumental in music performing a
cultural task as well: it is employed in the service of
establishing national identity. Through a clear theoretical lens,
Rehding examines how grand sound effects are strategically employed
with the view to overwhelming audiences, how supposedly immutable
musical halls of fame change over time, how challenging musical
works are domesticated, how the highest cultural achievements are
presented in immediately consumable form-in a word, how German
music emerges as a unified cultural and musical brand.
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