The "Galitzin" quartets of Beethoven : opp. 127, 132, 130 / Daniel K.L. Chua.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chua, Daniel K. L., 1966- author.

Series:

Princeton Legacy Library ; 320

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

String quartets--Analysis, appreciation.

String quartets.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig van.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (293 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1995]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study is an analysis of the first three of Beethoven's late quartets, Opp. 127, 132, and 130, commissioned by Prince Nikolai Galitzin. The five late quartets, usually considered as a group, were written in the same period as the Missa solemnis and the Ninth Symphony, and are among the composer's most profound musical statements. Daniel K. L. Chua believes that of the five quartets the three that he studies trace a process of disintegration, whereas the last two, Opp. 131 and 135, reintegrate the language that Beethoven himself had destabilized.Through analyses that unearth peculiar features characteristic of the surface and of the deeper structures of the music, Chua interprets the "Galitzin" quartets as radical critiques of both music and society, a view first proposed by Theodore Adorno. From this perspective, the quartets necessarily undo the act of analysis as well, forcing the analytical traditions associated with Schenker and Schoenberg to break up into an eclectic mixture of techniques. Analysis itself thus becomes problematic and has to move in a dialectical and paradoxical fashion in order to trace Beethoven's logic of disintegration. The result is a new way of reading these works that not only reflects the preoccupations of the German Romantics of that time and the poststructuralists of today, but also opens a discussion of cultural, political, and philosophical issues.Originally published in 1995.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

CHAPTER 1. Introduction

CHAPTER 2. Motifs, Counterpoint, and Form. THE QUARTET IN E♭ MAJOR, OP. 127

CHAPTER 3. Unity and Disunity. THE FiRST MOVEMENT OF THE QUARTET IN A MINOR, OP. 132

CHAPTER 4. Rhythm, Time, and Space. THE LAST FOUR MOVEMENTS OF OP. 132

CHAPTER 5. Cadences and Closure. THE MIDDLE MOVEMENTS OF OP. 130

CHAPTER 6. Doubles and Parallels. THE FIRST MOVEMENT OF OP. 130 AND THE GROSSE FUGE, OP. 133

CHAPTER 7. Conclusion

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-281) and index.

ISBN:

0-691-63645-1

0-691-60793-1

1-4008-6420-8

OCLC:

889250904