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Listening to reason : culture, subjectivity, and nineteenth-century music / Michael P. Steinberg.

Title: Listening to reason : culture, subjectivity, and nineteenth-century music / Michael P. Steinberg.
Author: Steinberg, Michael P.
Publication: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2004.

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Description

xiv, 246 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Staging subjectivity in the Mozart/Da Ponte operas. Staging subjectivity ; Don Giovanni and the scene of patricide ; Le nozze di Figaro and the scene of emancipation ; Cosi fan tutte and the scene of instruction -- Beethoven: heroism and abstraction. Heroism and abstraction ; Heroism and anxiety ; Fidelio ; The symphony no. 9 -- Canny and uncanny histories in Biedermeier music. Biedermeier music ; Mendelssohn's canny histories ; Schumann's uncanny histories ; Back to Schubert -- The family romances of music drama. The family romances of music drama ; Siegmund's death ; Subjectivity and identity -- The voice of the people at the moment of the nation. People and nations ; Brahms, 1868 ; Verdi, 1874 ; Dvořák, 1890 -- Minor modernisms. Music trauma, or, is there life after Wagner? ; Three fins-de-siècle ; The road into the open -- The musical unconscious.

ISBN

0691116857 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2003053592

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries