Developing variations : style and ideology in Western music / Rose Rosengard Subotnik.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Subotnik, Rose Rosengard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Style, Musical.

Musical criticism.

Musicology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (408 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1991.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Combines into a cohesive statement the author’s pathbreaking critical essays on Western music.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I. Ideological Criticism

1. The Role of Ideology in the Study of Western Music

2. Adorno's Diagnosis of Beethoven's Late Style: Early Symptom of a Fatal Condition

3. Why is Adorno's Music Criticism the Way It Is? Some Reflections on Twentieth-Century Criticism of Nineteenth-Century Music

4. Kant, Adorno, and the Self-Critique of Reason: Toward a Model for Music Criticism

Part II. Stylistic Criticism

5. Musicology and Criticism

6. Evidence of a Critical Worldview in Mozart's Last Three Symphonies

7. Romantic Music as Post-Kantian Critique: Classicism, Romanticism, and the Concept of the Semiotic Universe

8. On Grounding Chopin

Part III. Perspectives on Western Musical History

9. The Cultural Message of Musical Semiology: Some Thoughts on Music, Language, and Criticism since the Enlightenment

10. Tonality, Autonomy, and Competence in Postclassical Music

11. The Historical Structure: Adorno's "French" Model for the Criticism of Nineteenth-Century Music

12. Individualism in Western Art Music and Its Cultural Costs

13. The Challenge of Contemporary Music

Notes

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

R

S

T

U

V

W

Z.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-359) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8349-2

0-8166-1874-7

OCLC:

230204814