The Cambridge Companion to Music and Romanticism

by Benedict Taylor (Editor)

Overview

This Companion presents a new understanding of the relationship between music and culture in and around the nineteenth century, and encourages readers to explore what Romanticism in music might mean today. Challenging the view that musical 'romanticism' is confined to a particular style or period, it reveals instead the multiple intersections between the phenomenon of Romanticism and music. Drawing on a variety of disciplinary approaches, and reflecting current scholarly debates across the humanities, it places music at the heart of a nexus of Romantic themes and concerns. Written by a dynamic team of leading younger scholars and established authorities, it gives a state-of-the-art yet accessible overview of current thinking on this popular topic.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781108466875
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	08/26/2021
Series:	Cambridge Companions to Music
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.61(w) x 9.57(h) x 0.79(d)

About the Author

Benedict Taylor is Reader in Music at the University of Edinburgh. He is author of Mendelssohn, Time and Memory (Cambridge, 2011), The Melody of Time (2015) and Towards a Harmonic Grammar of Grieg's Late Piano Music (2016). He is co-editor of the journal Music & Letters, and the recipient of the Jerome Roche Prize of the Royal Musical Association.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations; List of musical examples and tables; List of contributors; Preface; Chronology; Part I. Horizons: 1. Defining the indefinable: romanticism and music Benedict Taylor; 2. The emergence of romanticism Keith Chapin; Part II. Worlds: 3. Music in romantic literature and poetry Miranda Stanyon; 4. Music, romantic landscape, and the visual Thomas Peattie; 5. Romanticism, the folk, and musical nationalisms Matthew Gelbart; 6. Music, romanticism, and politics Katherine Hambridge; 7. Music and technology John Tresch; 8. Music, magic, and the supernatural Francesca Brittan; 9. A kingdom not of this world: music, religion, art-religion James Garratt; Part III. Aesthetics: 10. Music in early German romantic philosophy Tomás McAuley; 11. Meaning and value in romantic musical aesthetics Alexander Wilfing; 12. Music and romantic interiority Holly Watkins; 13. Music, expression, and the aesthetics of authenticity Karen Leistra-Jones; Part IV. Practices: 14. Romantic languages Julian Horton; 15. Romantic forms Steven Vande Moortele; 16. Romanticism and the ideal of song Lisa Feurzeig; 17. Music staged and unstaged Sarah Hibberd; 18. Romanticism and performance Dana Gooley; Part V. Histories: 19. Musical romanticism as a historiographical construct Nicole Grimes; 20. The end(s) of musical romanticism Sebastian Wedler; Select bibliography; Index.