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Author:

Steinberg, Michael P.

Title:

Listening to reason : culture, subjectivity, and nineteenth-century music / Michael P. Steinberg.

Publisher:

Princeton University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

xiv, 246 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Music--19th century--History and criticism.
Subjectivity in music.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Staging subjectivity in the Mozart/Da Ponte operas. Staging subjectivity ; Don Giovanni and the scene of patricide ; Le nozze di Figaro and the scene of emancipation ; Così fan tutte and the scene of instruction -- Beethoven: heroism and abstraction. Heroism and abstraction ; Heroism and anxiety ; Fidelio ; The symphony no. 9 -- Canny and uncanny histories in Biedermeier music. Biedermeier music ; Mendelssohn's canny histories ; Schumann's uncanny histories ; Back to Schubert -- The family romances of music drama. The family romances of music drama ; Siegmund's death ; Subjectivity and identity -- The voice of the people at the moment of the nation. People and nations ; Brahms, 1868 ; Verdi, 1874 ; Dvořák, 1890 -- Minor modernisms. Music trauma, or, is there life after Wagner? ; Three fins-de-siècle ; The road into the open -- The musical unconscious.

ISBN:

9780691116853 (alk. paper)
0691116857 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)52251109

LCCN:

2003053592

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

UTAX314 -- Emmaus Bible College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)