"The time gives it proofe"
Subtitle: paradox in the late music of Beethoven
By: Sylvia Imeson.
Series: American university studies -- vol. 29
Publisher: Peter Lang; Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Beethoven, Ludwig van, -- 1770-1827 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Paradox.; Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Description: "The time gives it proofe": Paradox in the Late Music of Beethoven presents a fresh approach to the study of musical meaning in the complex works of Beethoven's last decade. Several compositions, including the String Quartets Opp. 132 and 130, are examined in terms of a multidisciplinary critical framework that draws on concepts of paradox derived from the fields of myth and literature.

This analysis of musical paradox in the selected works of Beethoven provides an effective means of interpreting the many apparently contradictory aspects of this repertoire, and serves as a useful model for the future analyses of narrative design and expressive structure in nineteenth-century music.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. (221)-237) and index.