Book contents
- Beethoven’s Theatrical Quartets
- Series page
- Beethoven’s Theatrical Quartets
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Music examples
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Setting the scene: theories, practices and the early nineteenth-century Viennese string quartet
- 2 Curtain up: performing the middle-period quartets in Beethoven’s time
- 3 ‘Not generally comprehensible’: Op. 59 No. 1 and the drama of becoming
- 4 ‘With much feeling’: song, sensibility and rhapsody in Op. 59 No. 2
- 5 ‘Helden-Quartett’: genre, innovation and ‘heroic’ voices in Op. 59 No. 3
- 6 ‘Freudvoll und leidvoll’: songful impetus and dualistic voice in the ‘Harp’ Quartet
- 7 ‘The quick-witted brevity of the genuine dramatist’: Op. 95 and the idea of the fragment
- 8 A tale of heroic emancipation? Reception narratives for the middle-period quartets
- Select bibliography
- Index
1 - Setting the scene: theories, practices and the early nineteenth-century Viennese string quartet
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2013
Book contents
- Beethoven’s Theatrical Quartets
- Series page
- Beethoven’s Theatrical Quartets
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Music examples
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Setting the scene: theories, practices and the early nineteenth-century Viennese string quartet
- 2 Curtain up: performing the middle-period quartets in Beethoven’s time
- 3 ‘Not generally comprehensible’: Op. 59 No. 1 and the drama of becoming
- 4 ‘With much feeling’: song, sensibility and rhapsody in Op. 59 No. 2
- 5 ‘Helden-Quartett’: genre, innovation and ‘heroic’ voices in Op. 59 No. 3
- 6 ‘Freudvoll und leidvoll’: songful impetus and dualistic voice in the ‘Harp’ Quartet
- 7 ‘The quick-witted brevity of the genuine dramatist’: Op. 95 and the idea of the fragment
- 8 A tale of heroic emancipation? Reception narratives for the middle-period quartets
- Select bibliography
- Index
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- Beethoven's Theatrical QuartetsOpp. 59, 74 and 95, pp. 8 - 38Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014