Music and Monumentality Commemoration and Wonderment in Nineteenth Century Germa...

"Music and Monumentality: Commemoration and Wonderment in Nineteenth Century Germany: by Alexander Rehding
OxfUniPress | 2009| ISBN: 0195385381 9780195385380 | 319 pages | PDF | 6 MB
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. Alexander Rehding, one of the brightest young stars in the field, takes on the task in Resounding Monumentality, an elegant, thorough treatment that will serve as a foundation for all future discussion in this area.
Rehding sets his focus on the main players of the period within the Austro-German repertoire -Beethoven, Liszt, Wagner, Brahms, Bruckner and Mahler- as he unpacks a two-fold definition of "musical monumentality."
In the conventional sense, monumentality is a stylistic property often described as 'grand,' 'uplifting,' and 'sublime' and rife with overpowering brass chorales, sparkling string tremolos, triumphant fanfares, and glorious thematic returns. Yet Rehding sees the monumental in music performing a cultural task as well: it is employed in the service of establishing national identity.
Through a clear theoretical lens, Rehding examines how grand sound effects are strategically employed with the view to overwhelming audiences, how supposedly immutable musical halls of fame change over time, how challenging musical works are domesticated, how the highest cultural achievements are presented in immediately consumable form-in a word, how German music emerges as a unified cultural and musical brand.

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Perspectives on Musical Monumentality
1 The Time of Musical Monuments
2 Musical Apotheoses
3 Sounding Souvenirs
4 Classical Values
5 Collective Historia
6 Faustian Descents
Epilogue: Beethoven's Ninth at the Wall
Notes
Bibliography
Index
with TOC BookMarkLinks



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