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"What can be done about the state of classical music?" Lawrence Kramer asks in this elegant, sharply observed, and beautifully written extended essay. Classical music, whose demise has been predicted for at least a decade, has always had its staunch advocates, but in today's media-saturated world there are real concerns about its viability. Why Classical Music Still Matters takes a forthright approach by engaging both skeptics and music lovers alike. In seven highly original chapters, Why Classical Music Still Matters affirms the value of classical music-defined as a body of nontheatrical music produced since the eighteenth century with the single aim of being listened to-by revealing what its values are: the specific beliefs, attitudes, and meanings that the music has supported in the past and which, Kramer believes, it can support in the future. Why Classical Music Still Matters also clears the air of old prejudices. Unlike other apologists, whose defense of the music often depends on arguments about the corrupting influence of popular culture, Kramer admits that classical music needs a broader, more up-to-date rationale. He succeeds in engaging the reader by putting into words music's complex relationship with individual human drives and larger social needs. In prose that is fresh, stimulating, and conversational, he explores the nature of subjectivity, the conquest of time and mortality, the harmonization of humanity and technology, the cultivation of attention, and the liberation of human energy.

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In this book, Susan McClary examines the mechanisms through which seventeenth-century musicians simulated extreme affective states-desire, divine rapture, and ecstatic pleasure. She demonstrates how every major genre of the period, from opera to religious music to instrumental pieces based on dances, was part of this striving for heightened passions by performers and listeners. While she analyzes the social and historical reasons for the high value placed on expressive intensity in both secular and sacred music, and she also links desire and pleasure to the many technical innovations of the period. McClary shows how musicians-whether working within the contexts of the Reformation or Counter-Reformation, Absolutists courts or commercial enterprises in Venice-were able to manipulate known procedures to produce radically new ways of experiencing time and the Self.

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"Reynolds shows that the stylistic advances made by Richard Wagner and Robert Schumann in 1845-46 stemmed from a deepened understanding of Beethoven's techniques and strategies in the Ninth Symphony, particularly the use of counterpoint involving contrary motion. The trail of influences that Reynolds explores extends back to the music of Bach and ahead to Tristan and Isolde, as well as to Brahms's First Symphony."--Provided by publisher.

Symphonies --- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.). --- Rezeption. --- Analysis, appreciation. --- Beethoven, Ludwig van, --- Wagner, Richard, --- Schumann, Robert, --- Influence. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Symphonies (Beethoven, Ludwig van). --- 1800-1899. --- Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827 -- Criticism and interpretation. --- Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827 -- Influence. --- Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827. Symphonies, no. 9, op. 125, D minor. --- Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856 -- Criticism and interpretation. --- Symphonies -- 19th century -- Analysis, appreciation. --- Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883 -- Criticism and interpretation. --- Analysis, appreciation --- Sinfoniettas --- Symphonies (Orchestra) --- Symphoniettas --- Shuman, R. --- Shuman, Robert, --- Schumann, Robert Alexander, --- Wagner, Wilhelm Richard, --- Drach, Wilhelm, --- Fājner, Rītshārd, --- Vāgners, Richards, --- Vagner, Rikhard, --- Vagner, R. --- Wagner, R. --- Wagunā, R., --- Vagneri, Rihard, --- Wagner, Riccardo, --- ואגנר, ריכארד --- ואגנר, ריכרד, --- Bītʹhūfin, --- Beethoven, L. van --- Van Beethoven, Ludwig, --- Beethoven, Louis van, --- Beethoven, Ludvig van, --- Bethovenas, L., --- Betkhoven, Li︠u︡dvig van, --- Beṭhoṿn, Ludṿig ṿan, --- Beethoven, Ludwik van, --- Betkhoven, L. van --- Bētōven, Rūtovihhi van, --- בטהובן --- בעטהאָוון, לודוויג וואן --- ベートベン, ルートビッヒ, --- 贝多芬, --- van Beethoven, Louis --- von Beethoven, Ludwig --- Beethoven, Ludwig --- Beethoven, Ludwig van --- ואגנר, ריכארד, --- Shumann, Robert, --- 18th century composers. --- 19th century classical music. --- 19th century composers. --- bach. --- beethoven. --- beethovens influence on music. --- beethovens influence. --- beethovens ninth symphony. --- brahms. --- classical composers. --- classical music studies. --- classical music. --- classical. --- contrary motion in music. --- contrary motion. --- ludwig von beethoven. --- music composition. --- music history. --- music. --- musical theory. --- musicians. --- schumann. --- symphonies. --- symphony composers. --- symphony. --- the flying dutchman. --- wagner.

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In this erudite and elegantly composed argument, Karol Berger uses the works of Monteverdi, Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven to support two groundbreaking claims: first, that it was only in the later eighteenth century that music began to take the flow of time from the past to the future seriously; second, that this change in the structure of musical time was an aspect of a larger transformation in the way educated Europeans began to imagine and think about time with the onset of modernity, a part of a shift from the premodern Christian outlook to the modern post-Christian worldview. Until this historical moment, as Berger illustrates in his analysis of Bach's St. Matthew Passion, music was simply "in time." Its successive events unfolded one after another, but the distinction between past and future, earlier and later, was not central to the way the music was experienced and understood. But after the shift, as he finds in looking at Mozart's Don Giovanni, the experience of linear time is transformed into music's essential subject matter; the cycle of time unbends and becomes an arrow. Berger complements these musical case studies with a rich survey of the philosophical, theological, and literary trends influencing artists during this period.

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