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Political Beethoven - New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism (Book) Loot Price: R973
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Political Beethoven - New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism (Book): Nicholas Mathew

Political Beethoven - New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism (Book)

Nicholas Mathew

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Musicians, music lovers and music critics have typically considered Beethoven's overtly political music as an aberration; at best, it is merely notorious, at worst, it is denigrated and ignored. In Political Beethoven, Nicholas Mathew returns to the musical and social contexts of the composer's political music throughout his career - from the early marches and anti-French war songs of the 1790s to the grand orchestral and choral works for the Congress of Vienna - to argue that this marginalized functional art has much to teach us about the lofty Beethovenian sounds that came to define serious music in the nineteenth century. Beethoven's much-maligned political compositions, Mathew shows, lead us into the intricate political and aesthetic contexts that shaped all of his oeuvre, thus revealing the stylistic, ideological and psycho-social mechanisms that gave Beethoven's music such a powerful voice - a voice susceptible to repeated political appropriation, even to the present day.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: September 2016
Authors: Nicholas Mathew
Dimensions: 172 x 244 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Book
Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 978-1-316-61629-1
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Western music, periods & styles > Classical music (c 1750 to c 1830)
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Western music, periods & styles > Romantic music (c 1830 to c 1900)
Books > Music > Western music, periods & styles > Classical music (c 1750 to c 1830)
Books > Music > Western music, periods & styles > Romantic music (c 1830 to c 1900)
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LSN: 1-316-61629-0
Barcode: 9781316616291

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