The Beethoven Syndrome by Mark Evan Bonds

Author:Mark Evan Bonds
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2019-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

This is not to say that modernist composers rejected the premise of expression altogether, but rather that they discouraged the notion that it emanated first and foremost from the compositional self. And it has been heard as such: the theorist Joseph Straus, for example, has recently argued that Stravinsky’s late music—much of it serialist—is “not only structurally rich but movingly expressive as well,” for it “vividly represents a wide range of human emotions and experiences.”35 The key word here is represents. As far as expression is concerned, the trajectory of aesthetic thought had in a sense come full circle with Stravinsky, back to a construction that would have been very familiar to composers and critics of the late Enlightenment.

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