Culture, Subjectivity, and Nineteenth-Century Music
Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 434 g
ISBN: 978-0-691-12616-6
Verlag: Princeton University Press
This pathbreaking work reveals the pivotal role of music--musical works and musical culture--in debates about society, self, and culture that forged European modernity through the "long nineteenth century." Michael Steinberg argues that, from the late 1700s to the early 1900s, music not only reflected but also embodied modern subjectivity as it increasingly engaged and criticized old regimes of power, belief, and representation. His purview ranges from Mozart to Mahler, and from the sacred to the secular, including opera as well as symphonic and solo instrumental music. Defining subjectivity as the experience rather than the position of the "I," Steinberg argues that music's embodiment of subjectivity involved its apparent capacity to "listen" to itself, its past, its desires. Nineteenth-century music, in particular music from a north German Protestant sphere, inspired introspection in a way that the music and art of previous periods, notably the Catholic baroque with its emphasis on the visual, did not. The book analyzes musical subjectivity initially from Mozart through Mendelssohn, then seeks it, in its central chapter, in those aspects of Wagner that contradict his own ideological imperialism, before finally uncovering its survival in the post-Wagnerian recovery from musical and other ideologies. Engagingly written yet theoretically sophisticated, Listening to Reason represents a startlingly original corrective to cultural history's long-standing inhibition to engage with music while presenting a powerful alternative vision of the modern.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Geschichte der Musik: Klassik (ca. 1750-1830)
- Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Geschichte der Musik: Romantik (ca. 1830-1900)
- Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
Weitere Infos & Material
List of Illustrations ix
Preface xi
INTRODUCTION 1
CHAPTER ONE
Staging Subjectivity in the Mozart/Da Ponte Operas 18
Staging Subjectivity 18
Don Giovanni and the Scene of Patricide 23
Le nozze di Figaro and the Scene of Emancipation 39
Cosi`fan tutte and the Scene of Instruction 51
CHAPTER TWO
Beethoven: Heroism and Abstraction 59
Heroism and Abstraction 59
Heroism and Anxiety 67
Fidelio 73
The Symphony No.9 84
CHAPTER THREE
Canny and Uncanny Histories in Biedermeier Music 94
Biedermeier Music 94
Mendelssohn's Canny Histories 97
Schumann's Uncanny Histories 122
Back to Schubert 131
CHAPTER FOUR
The Family Romances of Music Drama 133
The Family Romances of Music Drama 133
Siegmund's Death 142
Subjectivity and Identity 153
CHAPTER FIVE
The Voice of the People at the Moment of the Nation 163
People and Nations 163
Brahms, 1868 174
Verdi, 1874 178
Dvor?k,1890 186
CHAPTER SIX
Minor Modernisms 193
Music Trauma, or, Is There Life after Wagner? 193
Three Fins de Si?cle 202
The Road into the Open 220
CHAPTER SEVEN
The Musical Unconscious 226
Index 237
