Melody of Time: Music and Temporality in the Romantic Era

by Benedict Taylor

From the Romantic era onwards, music has been seen as the most quintessentially temporal art, possessing a unique capacity to invoke the human experience of time. Through its play of themes and recurrence of events, music has the ability to stylise in multiple ways our temporal relation to the world, with far-reaching implications for modern conceptions of memory, subjectivity, personal and collective identity, and history.
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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190206055
• ISBN13: 9780190206055
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"