
New Paths
Aspects of Music Theory and Aesthetics in the Age of Romanticism
Darla Crispin(Editor)
Leuven University Press
1st Edition
Published on 14. July 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-90-5867-734-1 (ISBN)
Description
In New Paths, five renowned scholars discuss a variety of topics related to Romanticism, focusing especially on the years 1800-1840. In a much-needed historical and critical overview of the concept of organicism, John Neubauer ranges from its origins in Enlightenment biology to its aftermath in postmodernism. Janet Schmalfeldt shows that not only Beethoven's op.47 should be called the Bridgetower rather than the Kreutzer Sonata but also that this makes a difference as to its meaning. Scott Burnham explains extreme contrasts between emotional and mechanical types of music in late Beethoven as stagings of the limits of human subjectivity. Jim Samson discusses Chopin's little-known musical upbringing in Warsaw, arguing that his grounding in eighteenth-century aesthetics (as opposed to theory) has thus far been neglected. Finally, Susan Youens's case study of Franz Lachner's Heine songs sheds light on radical experimentation by a so-called epigone in the period between Schubert and Schumann's miracle song year.
Contributors: Scott Burnham, Princeton University; John Neubauer, University of Amsterdam; Jim Samson, Royal Holloway, University of London; Janet Schmalfeldt, Tufts University; Susan Youens, University of Notre Dame
Contributors: Scott Burnham, Princeton University; John Neubauer, University of Amsterdam; Jim Samson, Royal Holloway, University of London; Janet Schmalfeldt, Tufts University; Susan Youens, University of Notre Dame
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Series
Edition
01
Language
English
Place of publication
Leuven
Belgium
Target group
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Not illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 238 mm
Width: 146 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
259 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-5867-734-1 (9789058677341)
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Darla Crispin is Senior Research Fellow at Orpheus Research Centre in Music (ORCiM, Belgium).
Content
PREFACE
fresh tracks, retracings and diversions
John Neubauer
Organicism and Music Theory
Janet Schmalfeldt
Beethoven's "Bridgetower" Sonata, Op. 47
Scott Burnham
Intimacy and Impersonality in Late Beethoven: Contract and the Staging of Subjectivity
Susan Youens
Of Epigones, Aftermaths, and Achievement: The Heine Songs of Franz Lachner
Jim Samson
Chopin and the Traditions of Pedagogy