LEADER 04000nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910817807303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-93638-7 010 $a9786612936388 010 $a1-4008-3573-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400835737 035 $a(CKB)2670000000028009 035 $a(EBL)537707 035 $a(OCoLC)663891322 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000422165 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11310867 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000422165 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10417031 035 $a(PQKB)10254338 035 $a(DE-B1597)446480 035 $a(OCoLC)979954329 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400835737 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL537707 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10448497 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL293638 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC537707 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000028009 100 $a20050627d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aListening to reason$b[electronic resource] $eculture, subjectivity, and nineteenth-century music /$fMichael P. Steinberg 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. ;$aWoodstock $cPrinceton University Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (264 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-12616-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tPreface --$tINTRODUCTION --$tChapter One. Staging Subjectivity in the Mozart / Da Ponte Operas --$tChapter Two. Beethoven: Heroism and Abstraction --$tChapter Three. Canny and Uncanny Histories in Biedermeier Music --$tChapter Four. The Family Romances of Music Drama --$tChapter Five. The Voice of the People at the Moment of the Nation --$tChapter Six. Minor Modernisms --$tChapter Seven. The Musical Unconscious --$tIndex 330 $aThis pathbreaking work reveals the pivotal role of music--musical works and musical culture--in debates about society, self, and culture that forged European modernity through the "long nineteenth century." Michael Steinberg argues that, from the late 1700's to the early 1900's, music not only reflected but also embodied modern subjectivity as it increasingly engaged and criticized old regimes of power, belief, and representation. His purview ranges from Mozart to Mahler, and from the sacred to the secular, including opera as well as symphonic and solo instrumental music. Defining subjectivity as the experience rather than the position of the "I," Steinberg argues that music's embodiment of subjectivity involved its apparent capacity to "listen" to itself, its past, its desires. Nineteenth-century music, in particular music from a north German Protestant sphere, inspired introspection in a way that the music and art of previous periods, notably the Catholic baroque with its emphasis on the visual, did not. The book analyzes musical subjectivity initially from Mozart through Mendelssohn, then seeks it, in its central chapter, in those aspects of Wagner that contradict his own ideological imperialism, before finally uncovering its survival in the post-Wagnerian recovery from musical and other ideologies. Engagingly written yet theoretically sophisticated, Listening to Reason represents a startlingly original corrective to cultural history's long-standing inhibition to engage with music while presenting a powerful alternative vision of the modern.Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions. 606 $aMusic$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSubjectivity in music 615 0$aMusic$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSubjectivity in music. 676 $a780.9034 700 $aSteinberg$b Michael P$0128462 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817807303321 996 $aListening to reason$93942278 997 $aUNINA