Research Catalog

Title

"The time gives it proofe" : paradox in the late music of Beethoven / Sylvia Imeson.

Author

Imeson, Sylvia, 1965-

Publication

New York : Peter Lang, [1996], ©1996.

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Details

Description

240 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

• "The time gives it proofe": Paradox in the Late Music of Beethoven presents a fresh approach to the study of musical meaning in the complex works of Beethoven's last decade. Several compositions, including the String Quartets Opp. 132 and 130, are examined in terms of a multidisciplinary critical framework that draws on concepts of paradox derived from the fields of myth and literature.
• This analysis of musical paradox in the selected works of Beethoven provides an effective means of interpreting the many apparently contradictory aspects of this repertoire, and serves as a useful model for the future analyses of narrative design and expressive structure in nineteenth-century music.

Series Statement

American university studies. Series XX, Fine arts ; vol. 29

Uniform Title

American university studies. Series XX, Fine arts ; v. 29.

Subjects

• Music > Philosophy and aesthetics
• Paradox
• Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827 > Criticism and interpretation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-237) and index.

Contents

I. Fumbling Towards Paradox: A Unified Theory of (Almost) Everything -- II. Speaking the Truth While Laughing: A Reflexive Approach to Composition -- III. Categorically Speaking: A Tentative Taxonomy of the Paradoxical in Music -- IV. "Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves": Thinking About Music and Meaning -- V. Case Study: The A-minor Quartet -- VI. Case Study: The B-flat-major Quartet.

ISBN

0820430293 (alk. paper)

LCCN

95037863

OCLC

• 33009317
• ocm33009317

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries