Over the last two hundred years, Beethoven's music has been synonymous with modernity's 'absolute' value-freedom. Author Daniel KL Chua explores how Beethoven's music engages with freedom's aspirations and dilemmas, challenging the current image of Beethoven, and suggesting an alterior freedom that can speak ethically to the twenty-first century.
Over the last two hundred years, Beethoven's music has been synonymous with modernity's 'absolute' value-freedom. Author Daniel KL Chua explores how Beethoven's music engages with freedom's aspirations and dilemmas, challenging the current image of Beethoven, and suggesting an alterior freedom that can speak ethically to the twenty-first century.
Daniel KL Chua is currently professor of music at the University of Hong Kong. Before joining Hong Kong University to head the School of Humanities, he was a fellow and the Director of Studies at St. John's College, Cambridge, and later Professor of Music Theory and Analysis at King's College London. He was a Henry Fellow at Harvard University and is the recipient of the 2004 Royal Musical Association's Dent Medal. He is the President of the International Musicological Society.
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Content Preface Introduction: SLOW INTRODUCTION - Lento I Overtura II Slow Thinking III Listening to Sirens IV Jolted V7 Dominant Expectations Movement I: NOTHING - Presto - più forte I Drawing a Blank II The Fantasy of Freedom III Nothing and Everything IV In the Moment V Speeding in Reverse VI Dialectic of Enlightenment VII Reflected Glory Movement II: SOMETHING - Adagio sostenuto - sempre pianissimo I In Order of Appearance II The Myth of Orpheus III Echo Homo IV No Hope in Hell V Child's Play VI The Devil's in the Small Print VII Echoes in Reverse VIII Redeeming Adorno Movement III: SOMEONE - Andante molto cantabile ed espressivo I The Sin of Omission II The Human III The Eyes of Alterity IV The Body and Memory V The Form of the Other VI Incognito VII Facing Redemption Bibliography Index
Content Preface Introduction: SLOW INTRODUCTION - Lento I Overtura II Slow Thinking III Listening to Sirens IV Jolted V7 Dominant Expectations Movement I: NOTHING - Presto - più forte I Drawing a Blank II The Fantasy of Freedom III Nothing and Everything IV In the Moment V Speeding in Reverse VI Dialectic of Enlightenment VII Reflected Glory Movement II: SOMETHING - Adagio sostenuto - sempre pianissimo I In Order of Appearance II The Myth of Orpheus III Echo Homo IV No Hope in Hell V Child's Play VI The Devil's in the Small Print VII Echoes in Reverse VIII Redeeming Adorno Movement III: SOMEONE - Andante molto cantabile ed espressivo I The Sin of Omission II The Human III The Eyes of Alterity IV The Body and Memory V The Form of the Other VI Incognito VII Facing Redemption Bibliography Index
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