Music as Cultural Practice, 1800-1900
- Author: Kramer, Lawrence
Book
$38.50Out of stock at the UK distributor
Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Musical Examples
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Tropes and Windows: An Outline of Musical Hermeneutics
- 2. Beethoven's Two,Movement Piano Sonatas and the Utopia of Romantic Esthetics
- 3. Impossible Objects: Apparitions, Reclining Nudes, and Chopin's Prelude in A Minor
- 4. Liszt, Goethe, and the Discourse of Gender
- 5. Musical Form and Fin-de-Siecle Sexuality
- 6. "As If a Voice Were in Them": Music, Narrative, and Deconstruction
- Appendix: Texts and Translations
- Textual Sources
- Index