Late Beethoven : music, thought, imagination
(2003)
By:
Solomon, Maynard
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
BIOGRAPHY/BEETHOVEN,L
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Berkeley : University of California Press, [2003]
©2003
©2003
DESCRIPTION
xi, 327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
0520237463 (alk. paper), 0520237463
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Prologue : a sea change -- The end of a beginning : the "Diabelli" variations -- Beyond classicism -- Some romantic images -- Pastoral, rhetoric, structure : the Violin sonata in G, op. 96 -- Reason and imagination : the aesthetic dimension -- The Seventh symphony and the rhythms of antiquity -- The Masonic thread -- The Masonic imagination -- The shape of a journey : the "Diabelli" variations -- Intimations of the sacred -- The sense of an ending : the Ninth symphony -- The healing power of music