Benedict Taylor

The Melody of Time

Music and Temporality in the Romantic Era

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Produktbeschreibung

Music has been seen since the Romantic era as the quintessentially temporal art, possessing a unique capacity to invoke the human experience of time. The Melody of Time explores the multiple ways in which music may provide insight into the problematics of time, spanning the dynamic century between Beethoven and Elgar.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780190206055
• ISBN-10: 0190206055
• Artikelnr.: 47863615

Autorenporträt

Benedict Taylor is Chancellor's Fellow in the Reid School of Music, University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Mendelssohn, Time and Memory: The Romantic Conception of Cyclic Form, and a number of studies of nineteenth- and twentieth-century music.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Time and Transcendence in Beethoven's late Piano Sonatas
2. Music, Time and Philosophy
3. Memory and Nostalgia in Schubert's Instrumental Music
4. Temporality in Russian Music and the Ideology of History
5. La sonate cyclique and the Structures of Time
6. Elgar's The Music Makers and the Spirit of Time
Bibliography
Index