Author:
Chua, Daniel K. L., 1966- author.
ImprintNew York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Descriptionxi, 273 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm
Note:INTRODUCTION: SLOW INTRODUCTION, Lento. Overtura ; Slow thinking ; Listening to sirens ; Jolted ; Dominant expectations -- MOVEMENT I: NOTHING, Presto, piu forte. Drawing a blank ; The fantasy of freedom ; Nothing and everything ; In the moment ; Speeding in reverse ; The dialectic of enlightenment ; Reflected glory -- MOVEMENT II: SOMETHING, ADAGIO SOSTENUTO, SEMPRE PIANISSIMO. In order of appearance ; The myth of Orpheus ; Echo homo ; No hope in hell ; Child's play ; The devil's in the small print ; Echoes in reverse -- MOVEMENT III: SOMEONE, ANDANTE MOLTO CANTIBILE ED ESPRESSIVO. The sin of omission ; The human ; The eyes of alterity ; The body and memory ; The form of the other ; Incognito ; Facing redemption.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-266) and index.
Note:By exploring the musical philosophy of Theodor W. Adorno through a wide range of the composer's music, 'Beethoven and Freedom' arrives at a markedly different vision of freedom. Author Daniel KL Chua suggests that a more human and fragile concept of freedom can be found in the music that has less to do with the autonomy of the will and its stoical corollary than with questions of human relation, donation, and a yielding to radical alterity. Chua's work makes a major and controversial statement by challenging the current image of Beethoven, and by suggesting an alterior freedom that can speak ethically to the twenty-first century.
