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Hearing Beethoven : a story of musical loss and discovery

Robin. Wallace 2018

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Hearing Beethoven : a story of musical loss and discovery
著者: Robin. Wallace
主題: Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827 -- Health; Deafness
描述: Introduction: a road trip to Texas -- Beethoven's deafness: what we know, what we can only guess -- 2003: a sudden case of deafness -- The deaf composer -- Deafness, vocation, vision -- The artifacts of deafness -- Ears, eyes, and mind -- Hearing through the eyes -- Epilogue: embracing wholeness.
We're all familiar with the image of a fierce and scowling Beethoven, struggling doggedly to overcome his rapidly progressing deafness. That Beethoven continued to play and compose for more than a decade after he lost his hearing is often seen as an act of superhuman heroism. But the truth is that Beethoven's response to his deafness was entirely human. And by demystifying what he did, we can learn a great deal about Beethoven's music. Perhaps no one is better positioned to help us do so than Robin Wallace, who not only has dedicated his life to the music of Beethoven but also has close personal experience with deafness. One day, at the age of forty-four, Wallace's late wife, Barbara, found she couldn't hear out of her right ear-the result of radiation administered to treat a brain tumor early in life. Three years later, she lost hearing in her left ear as well. Over the eight and a half years that remained of her life, despite receiving a cochlear implant, Barbara didn't overcome her deafness or ever function again like a hearing person. Wallace shows here that Beethoven didn't do those things, either. Rather than heroically overcoming his deafness, as we're commonly led to believe, Beethoven accomplished something even more difficult and challenging: he adapted to his hearing loss and changed the way he interacted with music, revealing important aspects of its very nature in the process. Creating music became for Beethoven became a visual and physical process, emanating from visual cues and from instruments that moved and vibrated. His deafness may have slowed him down, but it also led to works of unsurpassed profundity.
出版者: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press
建立日期: 2018
格式: xi, 281 p. : ill., music ; 23 cm..
語言: 英文
識別號: ISBN9780226429755
資源來源: NUTN ALEPH

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