The Event of Music History

by J. P. E. Harper-Scott

Brings musicology to the cutting edge of debates in the postmodern philosophy of history.

This book presents a new theory of how to write music history, and offers an exemplar of this new theory in action, in a series of four chapter-length reflexions on Beethoven's heroic style. The first book-length theory of music history since Carl Dahlhaus's Foundations of Music History, it brings musicology to the cutting edge of debates in the postmodern...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783275995
• ISBN13: 9781783275991
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"