Understanding why critics’ responses to Beethoven and to Schoenberg were so different lies in recognizing the commonality of the critics’ approaches.
creator
Alexandra L.
creator
Kieffer
creator
Kieffer, Alexandra L.
Title
Music and Metaphor: Legacies of Representation in Abstract Instrumental Music
Alternative Title
Legacies of representation in abstract instrumental music
supporting host
Grinnell College. Department of Music.
Index Date
2007
Publisher
Grinnell College
Type of Resource
text
Genre
research paper
Digital Origin
born digital
Digital Extent
16 pages
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application/pdf
description
Historically, the gulf between Beethoven and Schoenberg was Romanticism: its birth heralded by Beethoven’s Eroica symphony in 1804 and its demise crystallized by Schoenberg’s revolutionary atonality, Romanticism in music used the deconstruction of Classical form as a means of communicating emotion in abstract instrumental works. However, the key to understanding why critics’ responses to Beethoven and to Schoenberg were so different lies in recognizing, first, the commonality of the critics’ approaches in both instances.
Language
English
Topic
20th century
Topic
Metaphor in art
Topic
Visualization
Topic
Music
Topic
Philosophy and aesthetics
Keyword
Frederick Baumann Essay Prize (2007)
Temporal
1800-1999
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Frederick Baumann Essay Prize
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Liberal Arts Scholarly Repository
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Digital Grinnell
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Student Scholarship
Identifier (local)
grinnell:114
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