The point of recapitulation in the first movement of the Ninth [Symphony of Beethoven] is one of the most horrifying moments in music, as the carefully prepared cadence is frustrated, damming up energy which finally explodes in the throttling, murderous… — Susan McClary Copy Share Image
The point of recapitulation in the first movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony unleashes one of the most horrifyingly violent episodes in the history of… — Susan McClary Copy Share Image
Rather than protecting music as a sublimely meaningless activity that has managed to escape social signification, I insist on treating it as a medium… — Susan McClary Copy Share Image
To the large extent that music can organize our perceptions of our own bodies and emotions, it can tell us things about history that… — Susan McClary Copy Share Image
Sexuality ... is at the same time the most personal of realms and also the realm most carefully constrained by social order. — Susan McClary Copy Share Image
The point of recapitulation in the first movement of the Ninth [Symphony of Beethoven] is one of the most horrifying moments in music, as… — Susan McClary Copy Share Image
Tonality itself - with its process of instilling expectations and subsequently withholding promised fulfillment until climax - is the principal musical means during the… — Susan McClary Copy Share Image
Most people have music in the center of their lives. I believe my work sheds light on how music affects us and why it… — Susan McClary Copy Share Image
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