Listening to reason : culture, subjectivity, and nineteenth-century music
This pathbreaking work reveals the pivotal role of music--musical works and musical culture--in debates about society, self, and culture that forged European modernity through the "long nineteenth century." Michael Steinberg argues that, from the late 1700s to the early 1900s, music not only reflected but also embodied modern subjectivity as it increasingly engaged and criticized old regimes of power, belief, and representation. His purview ranges from Mozart to Mahler, and from the sacred to the secular, including opera as well as symphonic and solo instrumental music. Defining subjectivity a
eBook, English, ©2004
Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., ©2004
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (246 pages)
9781400835737, 9780691116853, 9780691126166, 1400835739, 0691116857, 069112616X
663891322
List of Illustrations; Preface; INTRODUCTION; Staging Subjectivity in the Mozart / Da Ponte Operas; Beethoven: Heroism and Abstraction; Canny and Uncanny Histories in Biedermeier Music; The Family Romances of Music Drama; The Voice of the People at the Moment of the Nation; Minor Modernisms; Index