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Music and monumentality :

0195385381

9780195385380

b739240

Music and monumentality :

[Book]

commemoration and wonderment in nineteenth-century Germany /

Alexander Rehding.

New York :

Oxford University Press,

2009.

vii, 308 pages :

illustrations, music ;

25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-298) and index.

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.

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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-German repertoire - Beethoven, Liszt, Wagner, Brahms, Bruckner and Mahler. In the conventional sense, monumentality is a stylistic property often described as 'grand,' 'uplifting,' and 'sublime' and rife with overpowering brass chorales, sparkling string tremolos, triumphant fanfares, and glorious thematic returns. Yet the author sees the monumental in music performing a cultural task as well: it is employed in the service of establishing national identity. He examines how grand sound effects are strategically employed with the view to overwhelming audiences, how supposedly immutable musical halls of fame change over time, how challenging musical works are domesticated, how the highest cultural achievements are presented in immediately consumable form-in a word, how German music emerges as a unified cultural and musical brand.

Music-- Germany-- 19th century-- History and criticism.

Sublime, The, in music.

Monumentalität

Music

Musik

Musikästhetik

Sublime, The, in music.

Deutschland

Deutschland.

Germany.

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Rehding, Alexander

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