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  • Music's Fourth Wall and the Rise of Reflective Listening

    by Mark Evan Bonds ...
    Series series AMS Studies in Music
    We've all heard some version of the line: "I enjoy classical music but don't know anything about it." Why but? Why and when did listeners begin to accept the idea that knowledge was needed to enjoy this particular repertory? Music's Fourth Wall and the Rise of Reflective Listening traces fundamental changes in the way listeners perceived instrumental music in European concert halls over the course ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Beethoven: Variations on a Life

    by Mark Evan Bonds ...
    Despite 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 ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • Absolute Music

    The History of an Idea

    by Mark Evan Bonds ...
    What is music, and why does it move us? From Pythagoras to the present, writers have struggled to isolate the essence of "pure" or "absolute" music in ways that also account for its profound effect. In Absolute Music: The History of an Idea, Mark Evan Bonds traces the history of these efforts across more than two millennia, paying special attention to the relationship between music's essence and ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • The Beethoven Syndrome

    Hearing Music as Autobiography

    by Mark Evan Bonds ...
    The "Beethoven Syndrome" is the inclination of listeners to hear music as the projection of a composer's inner self. This was a radically new way of listening that emerged only after Beethoven's death. Beethoven's music was a catalyst for this change, but only in retrospect, for it was not until after his death that listeners began to hear composers in general--and not just Beethoven--in their ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Music as Thought

    Listening to the Symphony in the Age of Beethoven

    by Mark Evan Bonds ...
    Before the nineteenth century, instrumental music was considered inferior to vocal music. Kant described wordless music as "more pleasure than culture," and Rousseau dismissed it for its inability to convey concepts. But by the early 1800s, a dramatic shift was under way. Purely instrumental music was now being hailed as a means to knowledge and embraced precisely because of its independence from ... Read more

    $22.39 USD

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Mark Evan Bonds ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Proposes a new way of listening to Beethoven by understanding his music as an expression of his entire self, not just the iconic scowl Despite 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, writes the music historian Mark Evan Bonds, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Ludwig van Beethoven

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Mark Evan Bonds ...
    Narrated by Paul Heitsch ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours

    Despite 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, writes the music historian Mark Evan Bonds, provides the key to understanding the composer's life and works. Beethoven approached music as he approached life, weighing whatever occupied him ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Anguish and Triumph

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    This "monumental" portrait of the man, his music, and the world in which he lived is "a truly remarkable biography" ( The Christian Science Monitor).Jan Swafford's biographies of Charles Ives and Johannes Brahms have established him as a revered music historian, capable of bringing his subjects vibrantly to life. His magnificent new biography of Ludwig van Beethoven, more than a decade in the ... Read more

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  • Wittgenstein's Novels

    by Martin Klebes ...
    Series series Studies in Philosophy
    Analyzing features of Wittgenstein's philosophical work and including in-depth textual analyses, this study investigates the impact of Ludwig Wittgenstein's work on contemporary German and French novelists.Drawing upon aesthetics, architectural history, philosophy of science, and photography, the book seeks to explain why references both to Wittgenstein as a person, as well as to his work are more ... Read more

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  • The Ninth

    Beethoven and the World in 1824

    by Harvey Sachs ...
    The premier of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in Vienna on May 7, 1824, was the most significant artistic event of the year—and the work remains one of the most precedent-shattering and influential compositions in the history of music. Described in vibrant detail by eminent musicologist Harvey Sachs, this symbol of freedom and joy was so unorthodox that it amazed and confused listeners at its ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Reading Mahler

    German Culture and Jewish Identity in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna

    by Carl Niekerk ...
    Gustav Mahler's music is more popular than ever, yet few are aware of its roots in German literary and cultural history in general, and in fin-de-siècle Viennese culture in particular. Taking as its point of departure the many references to literature, philosophy, and the visual arts that Mahler uses to illustrate the meaning of his music, Reading Mahler helps audiences, critics, and those ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Schubert's ‘Winterreise'

    Edited by Marjorie W. Hirsch, Lisa Feurzeig ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    Organized in five parts, this Companion enhances understanding of Schubert's Winterreise by approaching it from multiple angles. Part I examines the political, cultural, and musical environments in which Winterreise was created. Part II focuses on the poet Wilhelm Müller, his 24-poem cycle Die Winterreise, and changes Schubert made to it in fashioning his musical setting. Part III illuminates ... Read more

    $28.69 USD