Straus, Joseph N.

Extraordinary measures : disability in music / Joseph N. Straus - New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2011 - x, 212p ; 24cm

Composers with disabilities and the critical reception of their music -- Musical narratives of disability overcome : Beethoven -- Musical narratives of disability accommodated : Schubert -- Musical narratives of balance lost and regained : Schoenberg and Webern -- Musical narratives of the fractured body : Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Bartok, and Copland -- Disability within music-theoretical traditions -- Performing music and performing disability -- Prodigious hearing, normal hearing, and disablist hearing

9780199766468


Music - Performance - Philosophy and aesthetics
Musicians with disabilities
Music - Psychological aspects
Musical analysis

780.0362