Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Notes on Contributors ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. The Configuration of Heroic Music as a Tool for Shaping Moral and Political Identity
7. 1 Holy Heroes: On the Varieties of a Metaphor and its Musical Expression in the Medieval Historiae 13
8. 2 The Heroic in Music and the Musicality of the Hero in Late Sixteenth- Century England 32
9. 3 Virtù eroica: Heroic Music, Social Norms, and Musical Reflections in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Italy 50
10. 4 Handel’s Heroes 69
11. Part II. Music, its Ethics and Politics – Beyond ‘Beethoven Hero’
12. 5 Design Principles for the Musical Heroic 91
13. 6 Tonal Relationships and Spiritual Heroism in Beethoven’s Late Style 110
14. 7 Music, Content, and Context: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Hungarian Music in the Light of the Romantic Heroic Vision 129
15. 8 The Austro-German Heroic in the Music-Hermeneutical Era: Musical Discourse in the Service of Nationalist-Patriotic Armament between 1887 and the Early 1930s 145
16. Part III. Heroic Music and its Moralities in Dictatorships and Post-Heroic Democracies
17. 9 Heroicizing Handel in the Third Reich: Towards the Collapse of Political Propaganda 161
18. 10 Soviet War Symphonies and the Heroic Russian Epic 185
19. 11 ‘Someone to Save the Day’: Popular Music, Springsteen, and the Circle of Hero Production 207
20. 12 Émilie du Châtelet, Kaija Saariaho, and Heroes of the Twenty-First Century 225
21. Afterword 237
22. Bibliography 245
23. Index 277