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35 - Music, Drama, Dance and Performing Arts
Cardiff University
Sublime experience and ironic action: E. T. A. Hoffmann and the use of music for life
Chapin’s chapter appears in a book he co-edited with Lawrence Kramer. It addresses ways that music signifies, has value, and is evaluated in human society. Along with the two co-editors, five scholars address the representation of individual identity in a polyphonic madrigal (McClary), the variety of fantasy prized in nineteenth-century Germany (Brown), the values that inform tempo decisions in Brahms (Frisch), tellingly awkward moments in twentieth-century music (Franklin), ideals of place in Puccini’s La fanciulla del West (Leppert), and the representation of evil in twentieth-century music (Bernhart). The culture of devotion that came of age with Haydn’s and Beethoven’s slow movements is also addressed (Kramer). The book thus surveys how music can shape and model human values and how human values shape music.
Chapin’s contribution to the editorial process was 50%.
