Beethoven vs. Rossini

[Dave Monroe]

Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, & Sexuality

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_McClary#The_Beethoven_and_rape_controversy

Beethoven Antihero

http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1525/california/9780520237575.003.0005

The Romantic Cult and the Ode to Joy

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/078124.html

Beethoven's Ninth: A Political History

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo3641603.html

... + here's one I haven't read, hadn't even heard of  'til now, but
which has apparently been hiding in plain sight for two years now, so
...

The Invention of Beethoven and Rossini: Historiography, Analysis, Criticism

"Beethoven and Rossini have always been more than a pair of famous
composers. Even during their lifetimes, they were well on the way to
becoming 'Beethoven and Rossini' – a symbolic duo, who represented a
contrast fundamental to Western music. This contrast was to shape the
composition, performance, reception and historiography of music
throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Invention of
Beethoven and Rossini puts leading scholars of opera and instrumental
music into dialogue with each other, with the aim of unpicking the
origins, consequences and fallacies of the opposition between the two
composers and what they came to represent. In fifteen chapters,
contributors explore topics ranging from the concert lives of early
nineteenth-century capitals to the mythmaking of early cinema, and
from the close analysis of individual works by Beethoven and Rossini
to the cultural politics of nineteenth-century music histories."

http://www.cambridge.org/US/academic/subjects/music/nineteenth-century-music/invention-beethoven-and-rossini-historiography-analysis-criticism

On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 11:02 PM, Dave Monroe
<against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> We'll Meet Again: Musical Design in the Films of Stanley Kubrick
>
> https://books.google.com/books?id=qRuRAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA166#v=onepage&q&f=false
>
> http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199767663.do
>
> “Gustav is a composer. For months he has been carrying on a raging
> debate with Säure over who is better, Beethoven or Rossini. Säure is
> for Rossini. “I’m not so much for Beethoven qua Beethoven,” Gustav
> argues, “but as he represents the German dialectic, the incorporation
> of more and more notes into the scale, culminating with dodecaphonic
> democracy, where all notes get an equal hearing. Beethoven was one of
> the architects of musical freedom—he submitted to the demands of
> history, despite his deafness. While Rossini was retiring at the age
> of 36, womanizing and getting fat, Beethoven was living a life filled
> with tragedy and grandeur.”
>
> “So?” is Säure’s customary answer to that one. “Which would you rather
> do? The point is,” cutting off Gustav’s usually indignant scream, “a
> person feels good listening to Rossini. All you feel like listening to
> Beethoven is going out and invading Poland. Ode to Joy indeed. The man
> didn’t even have a sense of humor. I tell you,” shaking his skinny old
> fist, “there is more of the Sublime in the snare-drum part to La Gazza
> Ladra than in the whole Ninth Symphony. With Rossini, the whole point
> is that lovers always get together, isolation is overcome, and like it
> or not that is the one great centripetal movement of the World.
> Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power,
> love occurs. All the shit is transmuted to gold. The walls are
> breached, the balconies are scaled—listen!” It was a night in early
> May, and the final bombardment of Berlin was in progress. Säure had to
> shout his head off. “The Italian girl is in Algiers, the Barber’s in
> the crockery, the magpie’s stealing everything in sight! The World is
> rushing together. …”
>
> https://theoreticallyevil.wordpress.com/2010/07/13/beethoven-vs-rossini/
>
> Beethoven: The Man Who Freed Music
>
> http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Beethoven_%26_Rossini
>
> The Style of Connectedness: Gravity's Rainbow and Thomas Pynchon
>
> https://books.google.com/books?id=U7lX0wPvhocC&pg=PA281#v=onepage&q&f=false
>
> A Gravity's Rainbow Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon's Novel
>
> https://books.google.com/books?id=fK73JkjMDmQC&pg=PA247#v=onepage&q&f=false
>
> Ethical Diversions: The Post-Holocaust Narratives of Pynchon, Abish,
> DeLillo, and Spiegelman
>
> https://books.google.com/books?id=XQraAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA158#v=onepage&q&f=false
>
> Gravity's Rainbow, Domination, and Freedom
>
> https://books.google.com/books?id=469pAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA176#v=onepage&q&f=false
>
> Pynchon and Philosophy: Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno
>
> https://books.google.com/books?id=84GEAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA63#v=onepage&q&f=false
>
> Novel Listening: Background Sound and the Technologies of Aural Control
>
> https://books.google.com/books?id=9H-_5vdwSDMC&pg=PA181#v=onepage&q&f=false
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