Beethoven's Symphony no. 9
By: Alexander Rehding
Series: Oxford keynotes; Oxford keynotes
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
ISBN-13: 9780190299705; 9780190299699
Description: "Beethoven's Ninth Symphony has held musical audiences captive for close to two centuries, with each generation rediscovering the work for itself and making it its own. Zooming in on the significance of the symphony in contemporary culture, this book establishes a dialog between Beethoven's world and ours, marked by the earthshattering events of 1789 and 1989, and outlines in particular what is special about the Ninth in millennial culture. As music today is encoded not only as score but also as digital technology, we encounter Beethoven 9 flashmobs, virturally reconstructed concert halls, globally synchronized performances, and other time-bending procedures. The digital artwork "9 Beet Stretch" perhaps represents the extreme, presenting the Ninth at glacial speed over twenty-four hours, and challenges our understanding of the symphony while it encourages us to confront the temporal dimension of Beethoven's music. In the digital age, the Ninth emerges as a musical work that is recomposed and reshaped--and that is robust enough to live up to such treatment--continually adapting to a changing world of new media."--Backcover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-152) and index.
Table of contents: title: Beethoven's Ninth for a new millennium; title: Marking history; title: Marking hearing; title: Marking time; title: Marking form; title: Marking noise.