Chua, Daniel K L - Beethoven & Freedom

Over the last two hundred years, Beethoven's music has been synonymous with modernity's 'absolute' value-freedom. Author Daniel KL Chua explores how Beethoven's music engages with freedom's aspirations and dilemmas, challenging the current image of Beethoven, and suggesting an alterior freedom that can speak ethically to the twenty-first century.

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CONTENTS

Content
Preface
Introduction: SLOW INTRODUCTION - Lento
I Overtura
II Slow Thinking
III Listening to Sirens
IV Jolted
V7 Dominant Expectations
Movement I: NOTHING - Presto - piu forte
I Drawing a Blank
II The Fantasy of Freedom
III Nothing and Everything
IV In the Moment
V Speeding in Reverse
VI Dialectic of Enlightenment
VII Reflected Glory
Movement II: SOMETHING - Adagio sostenuto - sempre pianissimo
I In Order of Appearance
II The Myth of Orpheus
III Echo Homo
IV No Hope in Hell
V Child's Play
VI The Devil's in the Small Print
VII Echoes in Reverse
VIII Redeeming Adorno
Movement III: SOMEONE - Andante molto cantabile ed espressivo
I The Sin of Omission
II The Human
III The Eyes of Alterity
IV The Body and Memory
V The Form of the Other
VI Incognito
VII Facing Redemption
Bibliography
Index