Extraordinary Measures studies the impact of disability and concepts of disability on composers, performers, and listeners with disabilities, as well as ondiscourse about music and works of music themselves. It shows that music (itscomposers, performers, listeners, critical traditions, and exemplary works) both embodies and constructs disability. INDICE: Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1: Composers with Disabilities and the Critical Reception of their Music; 2: Musical Narratives of Disability Overcome: Beethoven; 3: Musical Narratives of Disability Accommodated: Schubert; 4: Musical Narratives of Balance Lost and Regained: Schoenberg and Webern; 5: Musical Narratives of the Fractured Body: Schoenberg, Stravinsky,; Bartók, andCopland; 6: Disability within Music-Theoretical Traditions; 7: Performing Music and Performing Disability; 8: Prodigious Hearing, Normal Hearing, and Disablist Hearing; Glossary of Musical Terms; Works Cited; Index
- ISBN: 978-0-19-976645-1
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha Publicación: 01/05/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés