Four-handed monsters : four-hand piano playing and nineteenth-century culture / Adrian Daub.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Daub, Adrian.

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Piano music (4 hands)--19th century--History and criticism.

Piano music (4 hands).

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

viii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]

Contents:

1 The Sonic Hearth and the "Piano Plague" 24

2 Four-Hand Piano Playing between Parlor Music and the Culture Industry 55

3 'At Best an Intruder, at Worst a Voyeur": Four-Hand Piano Playing and the Family Unit 52

4 Four-Handed Monsters 105

5 The Semantics of the Hand 135

6 Fordist Chords 163

7 Musical Platonism: Four-Hand Playing Among the Philosophers 186

8 Kakanian Variations: Four Hands and the Passing of the Nineteenth Century 212.

Notes:

"First published as Zwillinghafte Gebärden : Zur kulturellen Wahrnehmung des vierhänding Klavierspiels im neunzehnten Jahrhunder by Königshausen & Neumann GmbH, Würzburg, 2009."

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780199981779

0199981779

OCLC:

858975600