Sounding Values: Selected Essays

ISBN-13: 9780367602710 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 346 str.

Scott Burnham

Opis

This volume features Burnham's classic essays on mainstream Western music, music theory, aesthetics and criticism. In these writings, Burnham listens for the values - aesthetic, ethical, intellectual - of those who have created influential discourse about music, while also listening for the values of the music for which that discourse has been gene

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; Part I Theories and Practices: Romantic Aesthetics: Review Essay: E.T.A. Hoffmann's Musical Writings; Criticism, faith and the idée: A.B. Marx's early reception of Beethoven. Interpreting Historical Theory: Musical and intellectual values: interpreting the history of tonal theory; Method and motivation in Hugo Riemann's history of harmonic theory; A.B. Marx and the gendering of sonata form; Models of musical analysis: form. The State of Play: Approaches to Criticism and Analysis: The criticism of analysis and the analysis of criticism; Theorists and 'the music itself'; How music matters: poetic content revisited. Part II Impact and Effect: Critical Takes on Canonic Composers: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven: The second nature of the sonata form; Haydn and humor; Mozart's felix culpa: Così fan tutte and the irony of beauty; On the beautiful in Mozart; Our sublime Ninth; The 4 ages of Beethoven: critical reception and the canonic composer. Schubert, Schumann: Schubert and the sound of memory; Landscape as music, landscape as truth: Schubert and the burden of repetition; Novel symphonies, dramatic overtures; Index.

O autorze

Scott Burnham is Professor of Music at Princeton University, USA