The string quartets of Beethoven / edited by William Kinderman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kinderman, William.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827. Quartets--violins (2), viola, cello.

Beethoven, Ludwig van.

String quartets--Analysis, appreciation.

String quartets.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (360 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"We do not understand music--it understands us." This aphorism by Theodor W. Adorno expresses the quandary and the fascination many listeners have felt in approaching Beethoven's late quartets. No group of compositions occupies a more central position in chamber music, yet the meaning of these works continues to stimulate debate. William Kinderman's The String Quartets of Beethoven stands as the most detailed and comprehensive exploration of the subject. It collects new work by leading international scholars who draw on a variety of historical sources and analytical approaches to offer fresh insights into the aesthetics of the quartets, probing expressive and structural features that have hitherto received little attention. This volume also includes an appendix with updated information on the chronology and sources of the quartets and a detailed bibliography.

Contents:

Transformational processes in Beethoven's op. 18 quartets / William Kinderman

Metrical dissonance and metrical revision in Beethoven's string quartets / Harald Krebs

Peak experience : high register and structure in the "Razumovsky" quartets, op. 59 / Malcolm Miller

Beethoven's "Harp" quartet : the sketches in context / Lewis Lockwood

"Haydns Geist aus Beethovens Händen"? : fantasy and farewell in the quartet in E [flat], op. 74 / Nicholas Marston

Aspects of the genesis of Beethoven's string quartet in F minor, op. 95 / Seow-Chin Ong

"So träumte mir, ich reiste ... nach Indien" : temporality and mythology in op. 127/I / Birgit Lodes

Plenitude as fulfillment : the third movement of Beethoven's string quartet in B [flat], op. 130 / Robert Hatten

The genesis of the countersubjects for the Grosse Fuge / William E. Caplin

Opus 131 and the uncanny / Joseph Kerman

Beethoven's last quartets : threshold to a fourth creative period? / William Kinderman

Appendix : chronology and sources of the string quartets.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-343) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-283-58342-9

9786613895875

0-252-09162-0

OCLC:

811409095