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Listening to reason : culture, subjectivity, and nineteenth-century music /

Title:
Listening to reason : culture, subjectivity, and nineteenth-century music /
Author:
Steinberg, Michael P.
Published:
Princeton, N.J. : c2004.
Format:
Book
Institution:
New England Conservatory
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 ; Così 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.
Online access:
No online access
Library holdings:
New England Conservatory Spaulding Library
ML196.S84 L5 – Available