Extraordinary measures
Subtitle: disability in music
By: Joseph N. Straus
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780199766451; 9780199766468
Subjects: Composers with disabilities; Music; Philosophy and aesthetics; Psychological aspects; Musical analysis; Musicians with disabilities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Composers with disabilities and the critical reception of their music; title: Musical narratives of disability overcome : Beethoven; title: Musical narratives of disability accommodated : Schubert; title: Musical narratives of balance lost and regained : Schoenberg and Webern; title: Musical narratives of the fractured body : Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Bartók, and Copland; title: Disability within music-theoretical traditions; title: Performing music and performing disability; title: Prodigious hearing, normal hearing, and disablist hearing.