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Course Overview | Calendar | Listening Repertoire | Course Readings Assigned ReadingI have in mind a number of purposes in assigning these readings:
A. Giorgio Pestelli, “Beethoven’s character,” “Beethoven’s language,” The music up to the French invasion of Vienna (1809),” “Beethoven and early romanticism,” and “The late works,” in Pestelli, The Age of Mozart and Beethoven, trans. Eric Cross (Cambridge UP, 1984; orig. Ital. 1979), 218-53 [ML195 .P4713 1984] B. Maynard Solomon, “The Ninth Symphony: A Search for Order,” in Beethoven Essays (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988), 3-32 [ML410 .B4 S65 1988] C. E. T. A. Hoffmann, “Beethoven’s Instrumental Music,” [orig. 1813] in Oliver Strunk, Source Readings in Music History: The Romantic Era (New York: W. W. Norton, 1965), 35-41 [ML160 .S89 1965 v.5] D. Paul Henry Lang, “Classicism versus Romanticism,” “Aspects of Romanticism,” and “Mendelssohn¾Schumann¾Chopin,” in Lang, Music in Western Civilization (New York and London: W. W. Norton, 1997; orig. 1941), 734-40, 801-16 [ML160 .L25 M8 1969] E. Richard Leppert, “Cultural Contradiction, Idolatry, and the Piano Virtuoso: Franz Lizst,” In James Parakilas, ed., Piano Roles: A New History of the Piano (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999), pages TBA [ML650 .P37 1999] F. Carl Dahlhaus, “[Wagner’s] Aesthetics,” in John Deathridge and Carl Dahlhaus, The New Grove Wagner (New York and London: W. W. Norton, 1980), 92-110 G. Catherine Clément, “Dead Women,” in Clément, Opera, or the Undoing of Women, trans. Betsy Wing (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988; orig. 1979), 43-59 [ML2100 .C613 1988] H. Carl Dahlhaus, “Nationalism and Music,” in Dahlhaus, Between Romanticism and Modernism, trans. Mary Whittall (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1980; orig. German 1974), 79-101 [ML196 .D313] I. Richard Taruskin, “Pathetic Symphonist: Chaikovsky, Russia, sexuality and the study of music,” The New Republic (February 6, 1995), 26-40 |