Music as Cultural Practice 1800-1900 (Paper)

1. Auflage 1993
ISBN: 978-0-520-08443-8
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 241 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 386 g

Reihe: California Studies in 19th-Century Music

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kramer, Lawrence

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Geschichte der Musik: Klassik (ca. 1750-1830)
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Geschichte der Musik: Romantik (ca. 1830-1900)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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-Siecle Sexuality 
6. "As If a Voice Were in Them": Music, Narrative, and Deconstruction 
Appendix: Texts and Translations 
Textual Sources 
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lawrence Kramer is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Fordham University and a composer. His Music and Poetry: The Nineteenth Century and After (1984), is available from California in paperback.