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Adapting the resources of contemporary literary theory to forge his own discourse about music, the author of this treatise demonstrates how European music of the 19th century collaborates on equal terms with textual and sociocultural practices in the make-up of self and society.

Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Musical Examples
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Tropes and Windows: An Outline of Musical Hermeneutics
2. Beethoven's Two,Movement Piano Sonatas and the Utopia of Romantic Esthetics
3. Impossible Objects: Apparitions, Reclining Nudes, and Chopin's Prelude in A Minor
4. Liszt, Goethe, and the Discourse of Gender
5. Musical Form and Fin-de-Siecle Sexuality
6. "As If a Voice Were in Them": Music, Narrative, and Deconstruction
Appendix: Texts and Translations
Textual Sources
Index

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 17/12/1993
      ISBN13: 9780520084438, 978-0520084438
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Adapting the resources of contemporary literary theory to forge his own discourse about music, the author of this treatise demonstrates how European music of the 19th century collaborates on equal terms with textual and sociocultural practices in the make-up of self and society.

      Table of Contents
      List of Figures
      List of Musical Examples
      Preface
      Acknowledgments
      1. Tropes and Windows: An Outline of Musical Hermeneutics
      2. Beethoven's Two,Movement Piano Sonatas and the Utopia of Romantic Esthetics
      3. Impossible Objects: Apparitions, Reclining Nudes, and Chopin's Prelude in A Minor
      4. Liszt, Goethe, and the Discourse of Gender
      5. Musical Form and Fin-de-Siecle Sexuality
      6. "As If a Voice Were in Them": Music, Narrative, and Deconstruction
      Appendix: Texts and Translations
      Textual Sources
      Index

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