[Download] Beethoven after Napoleon: Political Romanticism in the Late Works (California Studies in 19th-Century Music)
| #2739674 in Books | 2004-08-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.02 x.64 x5.98l,1.27 | File Name: 0520238559 | 304 pages
||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Slow going, but well worth reading|By Jeffrey Huntington|On the one hand, this is a scholarly book with original and penetrating insights. On the other, it is a slow read--the author is not kind to the reader with his use of flowery, arcane, or esoteric language. What is gained by referring to the Scotch Snap as "Lombard Rhythm" or "Mann und Weib/Weib und Mann" as "Chiasmus.||"A brilliant and unfailingly provocative reading of Beethoven's music. Rumph challenges and refines our views of the subject, reinterpreting overly familiar music in striking new ways. Wonderful critical observations abound; the author writes with great imagi
In this provocative analysis of Beethoven's late style, Stephen Rumph demonstrates how deeply political events shaped the composer's music, from his early enthusiasm for the French Revolution to his later entrenchment during the Napoleonic era. Impressive in its breadth of research as well as for its devotion to interdisciplinary work in music history, Beethoven after Napoleon challenges accepted views by illustrating the influence of German Romantic politic... [PDF.eh70] Beethoven after Napoleon: Political Romanticism in the Late Works (California Studies in 19th-Century Music) Rating: 4.93 (725 Votes)
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