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The melody of time : music and temporality in the Romantic era / Benedict Taylor.
- Title
- The melody of time : music and temporality in the Romantic era / Benedict Taylor.
- Author
- Taylor, Benedict, 1981-
- Publication
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Book/Text | Request in advance | ML3845 .T37 2016 | Off-site |
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- Description
- viii, 312 pages : illustrations, music; 25 cm
- Summary
- Music has been seen since the Romantic era as the quintessentially temporal art, possessing a unique capacity to invoke the human experience of time. This book explores the multiple ways in which music may provide insight into the problematics of time, spanning the dynamic century between Beethoven and Elgar.
- Uniform Title
- University press scholarship online.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Time and transcendence in Beethoven's late piano sonatas -- Music, time and philosophy -- Memory and nostalgia in Schubert's instrumental music -- Temporality in Russian music and the ideology of history -- La sonate cyclique and the structures of time -- Elgar's The music makers and the spirit of time.
- ISBN
- 9780190206055
- 0190206055
- LCCN
- ^^2015010445
- OCLC
- 951100878
- SCSB-10461602
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library