The Heroic in Music
Contents
Illustrations
Contributors
Introduction
Part I. The Configuration of Heroic Music as a Tool for Shaping Moral and Political Identity
Holy Heroes
The Heroic in Music and the Musicality of the Hero in Late Sixteenth-Century England
Virtù eroica: Heroic Music, Social Norms, and Musical Reflections
Handel's Heroes
Part II. Music, its Ethics and Politics
Beyond 'Beethoven Hero'
Design Principles for the Musical Heroic
Tonal Relationships and Spiritual Heroism in Beethoven's Late Style

Music, Content, and Context: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Hungarian Music
The Austro-German Heroic in the Music- Hermeneutical Era
Part III. Heroic Music and its Moralities in Dictatorships and Post-Heroic Democracies
Heroicizing Handel in the Third Reich
Soviet War Symphonies and the Heroic Russian Epic
'Someone to Save the Day': Popular Music, Springsteen, and the Circle of Hero Production
Émilie du Châtelet, Kaija Saariaho, and Heroes of the Twenty-First Century
Afterword
Bibliography
Index