Screen LibraryMusic and monumentality : commemoration and wonderment in nineteenth-century Germany /
Shortly after the reunification of Germany, Leonard Bernstein conducted a special arrangement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at the Berlin Wall. The central statement of the work, that "all men will be brothers," captured the sentiment of those who saw a brighter future for the newly r...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: |
2017. ©2009 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
Shortly after the reunification of Germany, Leonard Bernstein conducted a special arrangement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at the Berlin Wall. The central statement of the work, that "all men will be brothers," captured the sentiment of those who saw a brighter future for the newly reunited nation. This performance is an example of "musical monumentality" - a significant concept which underlies our cultural and ideological understanding of Western art music since the nineteenth-century. This book looks at music monumentality, focusing on the main players of the period within the Austro-Germ |
| Carrier Form: | vii, 308 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-298) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780190656133 (paperback : alkaline paper) : 0190656131 (paperback : alkaline paper) 9780195385380 (hardcover : alkaline paper) 0195385381 (hardcover : alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | ML3877 |
| CLC: | J609.516 |
| Call Number: | J609.516/R345 |
| Contents: | Introduction : perspectives on musical monumentality -- The time of musical monuments -- Musical apotheoses -- Sounding souvenirs -- Classical values -- Collective historia -- Faustian descents -- Epilogue : Beethoven's Ninth at the Wall. |