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Music and Monumentality: Commemoration and Wonderment in Nineteenth Century Germany

Music and Monumentality: Commemoration and Wonderment in Nineteenth Century Germany

Rehding, Alexander

Hardcover

Music ReferenceMusic TheoryWorld Music

ISBN10: 0195385381
ISBN13: 9780195385380
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Aug 19 2009
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
A few weeks after the reunification of Germany, Leonard Bernstein raised his baton above the ruins of the Berlin Wall and conducted a special arrangement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. 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 now-iconic performance is a palpable example of musical monumentality - a significant concept which underlies our cultural and ideological understanding of Western art music since the nineteenth-century. Although the concept was first raised in the earliest years of musicological study in the 1930s, a satisfying exploration of the monumental in music has not yet been made. Alexander Rehding, one of the brightest young stars in the field, takes on the task in Music and Monumentality, an elegant, thorough treatment that will serve as a foundation for all future discussion in this area.

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