Music Theory in the Age of Romanticism (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521020084)

Twelve authors probe the mind of the Romantic era in its thinking about music. They provide a searching examination of writings by music theorists, critics, aestheticians, philosophers, and commentators from 1800 to 1875. In doing so, they wield new critical tools as well as old, casting fresh light, for example, on familiar problems of musical form by inspecting eighteenth-century rhetoric and nineteenth-century gendered discourse; exploring Schubertian modulation and Wagnerian motif with the insights of cognitive science; reinterpreting pianistic finger exercise by way of Michel Foucault and Frankenstein and so on. The impact of Hegel and Schelling on music theory occupies an important place, as does Schleiermacher's hermeneutics on analysis and criticism. The brilliant group of young historians of theory, represented here, provides an array of approaches, from detailed music analysis, through close reading of texts, through critical discourse, to philosophical enquiry.

Author: Ian Bent
ISBN-10: 0521020085
ISBN-13: 9780521020084
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/15/2005
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.54d