The Event of Music History 1st Edition by J P E Harper-Scott ISBN 1783275995 978-1783275991

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ISBN 10: 1783275995 

ISBN 13: 978-1783275991

Author: J P E Harper-Scott

Brings musicology to the cutting edge of debates in the postmodern philosophy of history.

This book presents a new theory of how to write music history, and offers an exemplar of this new theory in action, in a series of four chapter-length reflexions on Beethoven’s heroic style. The first book-length theory of music history since Carl Dahlhaus’s Foundations of Music History, it brings musicology to the cutting edge of debates in the postmodern philosophy of history.

While the book engages with current thinking, it also goes further than the postmodern critique of history writing to find a new and positive basis for the writing of music history. In so doing the book revisits the philosophy of Alain Badiou: in place of a focus on the facts, the objects of history, whose problematic relation to history writing the theorists have demonstrated, the book proposes a focus instead on the subjects of history, the ‘faithful’, ‘reactive, and ‘obscure’ responses to an ‘Event’ (a kind of rapture of ontology which brings the actors involved closer to a truth). It sees musical materials (the styles, techniques, and musical ‘language’ handed down to composers by history) in a dialectical relationship with the human beings who are music’s manifold historical actors.

Engagingly written, this new short theory of music history will be essential reading for scholars and students of the many area studies within music history. It will also attract those of neighbouring disciplines dealing with the philosophy of history or the history of historiography.

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Part 1 – Towards a Historical Methodpp 11-12
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Select 1 – Music History Since the Fall of the Berlin Wall
1 – Music History Since the Fall of the Berlin Wallpp 13-40
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Select 2 – What is a Subject of Music History?
2 – What is a Subject of Music History?pp 41-84
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Select 3 – The Absolute Nothingness of Music History
3 – The Absolute Nothingness of Music Historypp 85-110
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Select Part 2 – Reflexions on Beethoven and his Age
Part 2 – Reflexions on Beethoven and his Agepp 111-112
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Select 4 – Beethoven and the Heroic Thing
4 – Beethoven and the Heroic Thingpp 113-130
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Select 5 – Beethoven’s Emergency Brake
5 – Beethoven’s Emergency Brakepp 131-148
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Select 6 – Glimpsing Beethoven’s Truth Content Through Analysis
6 – Glimpsing Beethoven’s Truth Content Through Analysispp 149-168
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Select 7 – On a Chord in the ‘Kreutzer’ Sonata
7 – On a Chord in the ‘Kreutzer’ Sonatapp 169-208
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Select Afterword: Beethoven’s Faithful, Reactive, and Obscure Music
Afterword: Beethoven’s Faithful, Reactive, and Obscure Musicpp 209-214
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Select Bibliography
Bibliographypp 215-228
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