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OverviewDespite the ups and downs of his personal life and professional career-even in the face of deafness-Beethoven remained remarkably consistent in his most basic convictions about his art. This inner consistency, the music historian Mark Evan Bonds argues, provides the key to understanding the composer's life and works. Beethoven approached music as he approached life, weighing whatever occupied him from a variety of perspectives: a melodic idea, a musical genre, a word or phrase, a friend, a lover, a patron, money, politics, religion. His ability to unlock so many possibilities from each helps explain the emotional breadth and richness of his output as a whole, from the heaven-storming Ninth Symphony to the eccentric Eighth, and from the arcane Great Fugue to the crowd-pleasing Wellington's Victory. Beethoven's works, Bonds argues, are a series of variations on his life. The iconic scowl so familiar from later images of the composer is but one of many attitudes he could assume and project through his music. The supposedly characteristic furrowed brow and frown, moreover, came only after his time. Discarding tired myths about the composer, Bonds proposes a new way of listening to Beethoven by hearing his music as an expression of his entire self, not just his scowling self. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Mark Evan Bonds (Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Music, Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Music, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 21.10cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 14.20cm Weight: 0.295kg ISBN: 9780190054083ISBN 10: 0190054085 Pages: 160 Publication Date: 24 September 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Scowl 2. The Life 3. Ideals 4. Deafness 5. Love 6. Money 7. Politics 8. Composing 9. Early-Middle-Late 10. The Music 11. Beethoven Notes For Further ReadingReviewsWritten in polished, clear prose, this book will appeal to those who decide to learn more about Beethoven. Recommended. General readers. * M. N.H. Cheng, CHOICE * Written in polished, clear prose, this book will appeal to those who decide to learn more about Beethoven. Recommended. General readers. -- M. N.H. Cheng, CHOICE Author InformationMark Evan Bonds is the Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he has taught since 1992. A former editor-in-chief of Beethoven Forum, he has written widely on the music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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