Music as cultural practice, 1800-1900 / by Lawrence Kramer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kramer, Lawrence, 1946-

Contributor:

American Council of Learned Societies.

Series:

California studies in 19th century music ; 8.

California studies in 19th century music ; 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--19th century--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 226 p. ) music ;

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 1990.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Music as Cultural Practice, Lawrence Kramer adapts the resources of contemporary literary theory to forge a genuinely new discourse about music. Rethinking fundamental questions of meaning and expression, he demonstrates how European music of the nineteenth century collaborates on equal terms with textual and sociocultural practices in the constitution of self and society.In Kramer's analysis, compositional processes usually understood in formal or emotive terms reappear as active forces in the work of cultural formation. Thus Beethoven's last piano sonata, Op. 111, forms both a realization and a critique of Romantic utopianism; Liszt's Faust Symphony takes bourgeois gender ideology into a troubled embrace; Wagner's Tristan und Isolde articulates a basic change in the cultural construction of sexuality. Through such readings, Kramer works toward the larger conclusion that nineteenth-century European music is concerned as much to challenge as to exemplify an ideology of organic unity and subjective wholeness. Anyone interested in music, literary criticism, or nineteenth-century culture will find this book pertinent and provocative.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

List of Musical Examples

Preface

Acknowledgments

1 TROPES AND WINDOWS: An Outline of Musical Hermeneutics

2 BEETHOVEN'S TWO-MOVEMENT PIANO SONATAS AND THE UTOPIA OF ROMANTIC ESTHETICS

3 IMPOSSIBLE OBJECTS: Apparitions, Reclining Nudes, and Chopin's Prelude in A Minor

4 LISZT, GOETHE, AND THE DISCOURSE OF GENDER

5 MUSICAL FORM AND FIN-DE-SIÈCLE SEXUALITY

6 "AS IF A VOICE WERE IN THEM": Music, Narrative, and Deconstruction

Appendix: Texts and Translations

Textual Sources

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780520354555

0520354559

9780585249834

0585249830

OCLC:

1414457172

Publisher Number:

2027/heb06264 hdl