Music and the sonorous sublime in European culture, 1680-1880
"The sublime - that elusive encounter with overwhelming height, power or limits - has had a long relationship with music, from the early-modern rise of interest in the Longinian sublime to its saturation of European culture in the later nineteenth century and beyond. Music sits in productive te...
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Cambridge University Press
2020
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "The sublime - that elusive encounter with overwhelming height, power or limits - has had a long relationship with music, from the early-modern rise of interest in the Longinian sublime to its saturation of European culture in the later nineteenth century and beyond. Music sits in productive tension with the sublime in many foundational texts. Yet sustained attention to this relationship has been relatively uncommon. Scholars in other fields have called for a moratorium on studies of the sublime, yet there are remarkably few books dedicated to the sublime and music. Drawing together perspectives from musicology, sound studies, literary studies, intellectual history and theology, this collection offers a perspective on music that responds to current understandings of the sublime as a pre-disciplinary category traversing the arts, sciences and humanities"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | "This volume took shape following the conference "Sonorous Sublimes: Music and Sound 1670–1850" ... - Acknowledgements Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | xv, 305 Seiten Illustrationen, Notenbeispiele |
| ISBN: | 9781108486590 978-1-108-48659-0 9781108761253 |