Ludwig van Beethoven : approaches to his music / Carl Dahlhaus ; translated by Mary Whittall.
Many books have been written about Beethoven. But it is rare to find one that seeks an alternative between the fragmentation found in most specialized studies and the superficial overview typical of popular biography. In this volume, Carl Dahlhaus, one of the century's leading musicologists, co...
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Oxford : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
1991.
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Table of Contents:
- List of plates
- CHRONOLOGY
- 1. Life and work [1. The biographical method
- 2. Inner form and external intention
- 3. 'Intitulata Bonaparte'
- 4. The aesthetic subject and the biographical subject]
- 2. Personal style and the individuality of single works
- 3. 'Ingenium' and 'Witz'
- 4. The symphonic style [1. The sublime and the 'Noble Ode'
- 2. The monumental
- 3. Temporal structures]
- 5. Issues in sonata form [1. Motivic relationships
- 2. Models of sonata exposition
- 3. Introduction and coda
- 4. Form as transformation]
- 6. Theme and character [1. The dual concept of 'theme' in the eighteenth century
- 2. Formal and aesthetic themes
- 3. Aesthetic logic
- 4. Rhythm and the 'metrical foot'
- 5. 'Moral characters']
- 7. The 'underlying idea'
- 8. Form as idea [1. 'Obbligato accompaniment' and 'Durchbrochene Arbeit'
- 2. The 'Motives of the variation'
- 3. A forgotten formal idea]
- 9. The 'new path'
- 10. Fidelio [1. Idyll and Utopia
- 2. Musical symbolism and motives of reminiscence]
- 11. Church music and the religion of art
- 12. 'Subthematicism'
- 13. Late works [1. What is a late work?
- 2. 'Con Alcune Licenze'
- 3. Abstraction
- 4. 'The Magic of Association'
- 5. Ambiguity
- 6. Lyricism and motivic working]
- Bibliography
- Index
- Index of Beethoven's works.