Musically Sublime: Indeterminacy, Infinity, Irresolvability

by Kiene Brillenburg Wurth and Kiene Wirth

Musically Sublime rewrites musically the history and philosophy of the sublime. Music enables us to reconsider the traditional course of sublime feeling on a track from pain to pleasure. Resisting the notion that there is a single format for sublime feeling, Wurth shows how, from the mid eighteenth century onward, sublime feeling is, instead, constantly rearticulated in a complex interaction with musicality.

Wurth takes as her point of departure...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823230635
• ISBN13: 9780823230631
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 8.9"