Beethoven's String Quartet in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 131

Nancy November

ISBN 10: 0190059214 / ISBN 13: 9780190059217

Editore: Oxford University Press Mai 2021, 2021

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Neuware - In Beethoven's String Quartet in C-sharp Minor, Op. 131, author Nancy November provides an analysis of Beethoven's Op. 131, illuminated by excerpts from a range of sound recordings, geared towards allowing the reader to access earlier modes of listening and interpretation. The book's well-rounded and multifaceted approach blends mainstream, traditional scholarship with popular media.

Codice articolo 9780190059217

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• Titolo: Beethoven's String Quartet in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 131
• Editore: Oxford University Press Mai 2021
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0190059214
• ISBN 13: 9780190059217
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 208 L x 137 A x 13 P (millimetri) 208 millimetri di larghezza per 137 millimetri di altezza per 13 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 181 grammi

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Riassunto

Beethoven's String Quartet in C-sharp minor Op. 131 (1826) is not only firmly a part of the scholarly canon, the performing canon, and the pedagogical canon, but also makes its presence felt in popular culture. Yet in recent times, the terms in which the C-sharp minor quartet is discussed and presented tend to undermine the multivalent nature of the work. Although it is held up as a masterpiece, Op. 131 has often been understood in monochrome terms as a work portraying tragedy, struggle, and loss.

In Beethoven's String Quartet in C-sharp Minor, Op. 13, author Nancy November takes the modern-day listener well beyond these categories of adversity or deficit. The book goes back to early reception documents, including Beethoven's own writings about the work, to help the listener reinterpret and re-hear it. This book reveals the diverse musical ideas present in Op. 131 and places the work in the context of an emerging ideology of silent or 'serious' listening in Beethoven's Europe. It considers how this particular 'late' quartet could speak with special eloquence to a highly select but passionately enthusiastic audience and examines how and why the reception of Op. 131 has changed so profoundly from Beethoven's time to our own.

Informazioni sull?autore

Nancy November is an Associate Professor in musicology at the University of Auckland. Combining interdisciplinarity and cultural history, her research continues to center on chamber music of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, probing questions of historiography, canonization, and genre. She is the recipient of a Humboldt Fellowship; and two Marsden Grants from the New Zealand Royal Society.