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    Beethoven's String Quartet in C-sharp Minor, Op. 131

    Beethoven's String Quartet in C-sharp Minor, Op. 131 by November, Nancy;

    Series: Oxford Keynotes;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher OUP USA
    • Date of Publication 7 September 2021

    • ISBN 9780190059217
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages152 pages
    • Size 137x208x12 mm
    • Weight 181 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 12 illustrations
    • 135

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    Short description:

    In Beethoven's String Quartet in C-sharp Minor, Op. 131, author Nancy November provides an analysis of Beethoven's Op. 131, illuminated by excerpts from a range of sound recordings, geared towards allowing the reader to access earlier modes of listening and interpretation. The book's well-rounded and multifaceted approach blends mainstream, traditional scholarship with popular media.

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    Long description:

    Beethoven's String Quartet in C-sharp minor Op. 131 (1826) is not only firmly a part of the scholarly canon, the performing canon, and the pedagogical canon, but also makes its presence felt in popular culture. Yet in recent times, the terms in which the C-sharp minor quartet is discussed and presented tend to undermine the multivalent nature of the work. Although it is held up as a masterpiece, Op. 131 has often been understood in monochrome terms as a work portraying tragedy, struggle, and loss.

    In Beethoven's String Quartet in C-sharp Minor, Op. 13, author Nancy November takes the modern-day listener well beyond these categories of adversity or deficit. The book goes back to early reception documents, including Beethoven's own writings about the work, to help the listener reinterpret and re-hear it. This book reveals the diverse musical ideas present in Op. 131 and places the work in the context of an emerging ideology of silent or 'serious' listening in Beethoven's Europe. It considers how this particular 'late' quartet could speak with special eloquence to a highly select but passionately enthusiastic audience and examines how and why the reception of Op. 131 has changed so profoundly from Beethoven's time to our own.

    November's text is informed, critical and provocative, admirably fulfilling the aims of the Oxford Keynotes series.

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    Table of Contents:

    1. Re-hearing Op. 131
    2. The early and popular reception of Op.131
    3. "A new kind of part writing"
    4. "Like an overly large fantasy"
    5. Op. 131 and the Rise of Attentive Listening

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