The Heroic in Music

Introduction
Beate Kutschke and Katherine Butler
Part I. The Configuration of Heroic Music as a Tool for Shaping Moral and Political Identity
1. Holy Heroes: On the Varieties of a Metaphor and its Musical Expression in the Medieval Historiae
Roman Hankeln
2. The Heroic in Music and the Musicality of the Hero in Late Sixteenth-Century England
Katherine Butler
3. Virtù eroica: Heroic Music, Social Norms, and Musical Reflections in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Italy
Berthold Over
4. Handel's Heroes
Jonathan Rhodes Lee
Part II. Music, its Ethics and Politics - Beyond 'Beethoven Hero'
5. Design Principles for the Musical Heroic
Lawrence M. Zbikowski
6. Tonal Relationships and Spiritual Heroism in Beethoven's Late Style
Olga Sánchez-Kisielewska
7. Music, Content, and Context: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Hungarian Music in the Light of the Romantic Heroic Vision
Csilla Petho-Vernet
8. The Austro-German Heroic in the Music-Hermeneutical Era: Musical Discourse in the Service of Nationalist-Patriotic Armament between 1887 and the Early 1930s
Beate Kutschke
Part III. Heroic Music and its Moralities in Dictatorships and Post-Heroic Democracies
9. Heroicizing Handel in the Third Reich: Towards the Collapse of Political Propaganda
Juliane Riepe
10. Soviet War Symphonies and the Heroic Russian Epic
Nathan Seinen
11. 'Someone to Save the Day': Popular Music, Springsteen, and the Circle of Hero Production
Dietrich Helms
12. Émilie du Châtelet, Kaija Saariaho, and Heroes of the Twenty-First Century
Judith Lochhead
Afterword
Scott Burnham
Bibliography
Index