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Author Greene, David B.

Title The Imagining of Community in Works of Beethoven, Verdi, and Shostakovich : Musical Means for Envisioning Community.

Publication Info. Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (195 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Contents Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; Chapter One. When Musical Arts Imagine Community; 1. Imagining and Conceiving Community; 2. Arts and Community: Focus on the Imagining of Community; 3. Arts and Community: Other Approaches; 4. Overview of Three Case Studies; 5. Some Methodological Considerations; Chapter Two. Shostakovich and Imagining the Common Good; 1. Introduction: The Good of the State and the Good of the Community; 2. Shostakovich, Civic Republicanism and the Pursuit of the Common Good; 3. The Pursuit of the Common Good.
Chapter Three. The Chorus in Verdi's Operas: Imagining the Individual and the Community1. Introduction: The Malevolence of Nationalism; the Benevolence of Otherness; 2. Choruses and Protagonists in Verdi's Operas: Participating in and Transcending Community; 3. Nationalism and Verdi's Imagining of Community; Chapter Four. Beethoven's Ninth Symphony: Joy-Based Community and Community-Based Joy; 1. Introduction I: Imagining Community through Feeling; 2. Introduction II: Re-Imagining Emotion and Community through Re-Making Aesthetic Forms.
3. The Musical Structure of Beethoven's Finale and Its Impact on the Words4. The Musical Structure and the Process of Making and Unmaking; 5. The End and Endlessness of Unmaking Form and Re-imagining; Bibliography; Index.
Summary This book takes up pieces of music that imagine community. These works do not illustrate concepts of community or make community an explicit theme. Nevertheless, the particular techniques and structure of each work project an imagining of community that is unique to the piece. Studying the pieces together lays the groundwork for re-imagining the relation of arts and society.
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Subject Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827. Symphonies. no. 9, op. 125.
Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975.
Criticism and interpretation.
Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901. Operas.
Operas (Verdi, Giuseppe)
Symphonies (Beethoven, Ludwig van)
Communities in music.
Communities in music.
Music -- Social aspects.
Music -- Social aspects.
Music -- History and criticism.
Music.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Greene, David B. Imagining of Community in Works of Beethoven, Verdi, and Shostakovich : Musical Means for Envisioning Community. Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2010 9780773446656
ISBN 9780773411159 (electronic book)
0773411151 (electronic book)