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Title: The Heroic in Music
Condition: New
Author: Lawrence Zbikowski
Contributor: Lawrence Zbikowski (Contributions by), Juliane Riepe (Contributions by), Judith Lochhead (Contributions by), Nathan Seinen (Contributions by), Scott Burnham (Contributions by), Berthold Over (Contributions by), Beate Kutschke (Contributions by), Olga Sánchez-Kisielewska (Contributions by), Jonathan Rhodes Lee (Contributions by), Csilla Pethö-Vernet (Contributions by), Katherine Butler (Contributions by), Beate Kutschke (Edited by), Roman Hankeln (Contributions by), Katherine Butler (Edited by), Dietrich Helms (Contributions by)
Format: Hardback
ISBN-10: 1783276894
EAN: 9781783276899
ISBN: 9781783276899
Publisher: The Boydell Press
Genre: Music Dance & Theatre
Release Date: 04/22/2022
Description: Reconstructs the socio-political history of the heroic in music through case studies spanning the middle ages to the twenty-first centuryThe first part of this volume reconstructs the various musical strategies that composers of medieval chant, Renaissance madrigals, and Baroque operas, cantatas or oratorios employed when referring to heroic ideas exemplifying their personal moral and political values. A second part investigating the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries expands the previous narrow focus on Beethoven's heroic middle period and the cult of the virtuoso. It demonstrates the wide spectrum of heroic positions - national, ethnic, revolutionary, bourgeois and spiritual - that filtered not only into 'classical' large-scale heroic symphonies and virtuoso solo concerts, but also into chamber music and vernacular dance music. The third part documents the forced heroization of music in twentieth-century totalitarian regimes such as Nazi-Germany and the Soviet Union and its consequences for heroic thinking and musical styles in the time thereafter. Final chapters show how recent rock-folk and avant-garde musicians in North America and Europe feature new heroic models such as the everyday hero and the scientific heroine revealing new confidence in the idea of the heroic.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 234mm
Item Length: 156mm
Item Weight: 1g
Release Year: 2022

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