Music and monumentality : commemoration and wonderment in nineteenth-century Germany /
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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 fi |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 308 pages) : illustrations, music |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-298) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199736652 0199736650 0199852499 9780199852499 |