The Heroic in Music

Reconstructs the socio-political history of the heroic in music through case studies spanning the middle ages to the twenty-first century

IntroductionBeate Kutschke and Katherine ButlerPart I. The Configuration of Heroic Music as a Tool for Shaping Moral and Political Identity1. Holy Heroes: On the Varieties of a Metaphor and its Musical Expression in the Medieval HistoriaeRoman Hankeln2. The Heroic in Music and the Musicality of the Hero in Late Sixteenth-Century EnglandKatherine Butler3. Virtù eroica: Heroic Music, Social Norms, and Musical Reflections in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century ItalyBerthold Over4. Handel's HeroesJonathan Rhodes LeePart II. Music, its Ethics and Politics - Beyond 'Beethoven Hero'5. Design Principles for the Musical HeroicLawrence M. Zbikowski6. Tonal Relationships and Spiritual Heroism in Beethoven's Late StyleOlga Sánchez-Kisielewska7. Music, Content, and Context: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Hungarian Music in the Light of the Romantic Heroic VisionCsilla Peth¿-Vernet8. The Austro-German Heroic in the Music-Hermeneutical Era: Musical Discourse in the Service of Nationalist-Patriotic Armament between 1887 and the Early 1930sBeate KutschkePart III. Heroic Music and its Moralities in Dictatorships and Post-Heroic Democracies9. Heroicizing Handel in the Third Reich: Towards the Collapse of Political PropagandaJuliane Riepe10. Soviet War Symphonies and the Heroic Russian EpicNathan Seinen11. 'Someone to Save the Day': Popular Music, Springsteen, and the Circle of Hero ProductionDietrich Helms12. Émilie du Châtelet, Kaija Saariaho, and Heroes of the Twenty-First CenturyJudith LochheadAfterwordScott BurnhamBibliographyIndex