Bonds, Mark Evan - The Beethoven Syndrome

The Beethoven Syndrome: Hearing Music as Autobiography traces the rise, fall, and persistence of a radical new mode of listening from the middle of the eighteenth century to the present.

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CONTENTS

Introduction: The Instrumental Self
Part 1: The Paradigm of Objective Expression: 1770-1830
Chapter 1: The Framework of Rhetoric
Chapter 2: Toward Subjective Expression
Chapter 3: The Composer in the Work
Part 2: The Paradigm of Subjective Expression: 1830-1920
Chapter 4: The Framework of Hermeneutics
Chapter 5: First-Person Beethoven
Chapter 6: After Beethoven
Part 3: Dual Paradigms: Since 1920
Chapter 7: The Return of Objectivity
Chapter 8: The Endurance of Subjectivity
Conclusion: Tracking Comets
Bibliography