Music Theory in the Age of Romanticism

by Ian Bent

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521020085
• ISBN13: 9780521020084
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.7" x 9.6"