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Developing Variations Style and Ideology in Western Music Rose Rosengard Subotnik |
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Combines into a cohesive statement the author's pathbreaking critical essays on Western music. Music, even at its formal level, says Rose Rosengard Subotnik, is to be understood as an embodiment of specific cultural and social values, as defined within the interpreter’s own context. In Developing Variations, Subotnik critically employs the insights of Adorno, Kant, Hegel, and Marx to analyze the works of Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, and Schoenberg. "Rose Subotnik stands out as perhaps the most interesting and provocative person to have written from a nonpositivist, nonvenerative position about music in society, rather than music as autonomous art. Her massive project on post-Kantian philosophy, as embodied in and carried forward by music, is in a class by itself. As a philological and interpretive reading of Adorno, she is, I believe, the major voice." —Edward W. Said Widely known for her work on critical and literary theory as applied to music, Rose Rosengard Subotnik is associate professor of music at Brown University. 406 pages | 5 musical excerpts | 1991 |
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