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245 10 a| Listening to reason :b| culture, subjectivity, and nineteenth-century music /c| Michael P. Steinberg.;

300 a| xiv, 246 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 24 cm;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

520 a| This pathbreaking work reveals the pivotal role of music-musical works and musical culture-in debates about society, self, and culture that forged European modernity through the "long nineteenth century." The author argues that, from the late 1700s to the early 1900s, music not only reflected but also embodied modern subjectivity as it increasingly engaged and criticized old regimes of power, belief, and representation. His purview ranges from Mozart to Mahler, and from the sacred to the secular, including opera as well as symphonic and solo instrumental music. Defining subjectivity as the experience rather than the position of the "I," Steinberg argues that music's embodiment of subjectivity involved its apparent capacity to "listen" to itself, its past, its desires. Nineteenth-century music, in particular music from a north German Protestant sphere, inspired introspection in a way that the music and art of previous periods, notably the Catholic baroque with its emphasis on the visual, did not. The book analyzes musical subjectivity initially from Mozart through Mendelssohn, then seeks it, in its central chapter, in those aspects of Wagner that contradict his own ideological imperialism, before finally uncovering its survival in the post-Wagnerian recovery from musical and other ideologies.;

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Listening to reason : culture, subjectivity, and nineteenth-century music / Michael P. Steinberg.

Author/creator	Steinberg, Michael P.
Format	Book
Publication Info	Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2004.
Description	xiv, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects	Music--19th century. --History and criticism. Subjectivity in music.

Contents	Staging subjectivity in the Mozart/Da ponte operas. Staging subjectivity ; Don Giovanni and the scene of patricide ; Le nozze de Figaro and the scene of emancipation ; Cosi fan tutte and the scene of instruction -- Beethoven: heroism and abstraction. Heroism and abstraction ; Heroism and anxiety ; Fidelio ; The symphony no. 9 -- Canny and uncanny histories in Biedermeier music. Biedermeier music ; Mendelssohn's canny histories ; Schumann's uncanny histories ; Back to Schubert -- The family romances of music drama. The family romances of music drama ; Siegmund's death ; Subjectivity and identity -- The voice of the people at the moment of the nation. People and nations ; Brahms, 1868 ; Verdi, 1874 ; Dvorak, 1890 -- Minor modernisms. Music trauma, or, is there life after Wagner? ; Three fins de siecle ; The road into the open -- The musical unconscious.
Abstract	This pathbreaking work reveals the pivotal role of music-musical works and musical culture-in debates about society, self, and culture that forged European modernity through the "long nineteenth century." The author argues that, from the late 1700s to the early 1900s, music not only reflected but also embodied modern subjectivity as it increasingly engaged and criticized old regimes of power, belief, and representation. His purview ranges from Mozart to Mahler, and from the sacred to the secular, including opera as well as symphonic and solo instrumental music. Defining subjectivity as the experience rather than the position of the "I," Steinberg argues that music's embodiment of subjectivity involved its apparent capacity to "listen" to itself, its past, its desires. Nineteenth-century music, in particular music from a north German Protestant sphere, inspired introspection in a way that the music and art of previous periods, notably the Catholic baroque with its emphasis on the visual, did not. The book analyzes musical subjectivity initially from Mozart through Mendelssohn, then seeks it, in its central chapter, in those aspects of Wagner that contradict his own ideological imperialism, before finally uncovering its survival in the post-Wagnerian recovery from musical and other ideologies.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2003053592
ISBN	0691116857 (alk. paper)
ISBN	9780691116853 (alk. paper)

Listening to reason : culture, subjectivity, and nineteenth-century music / Michael P. Steinberg.

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