Melody of Time
Subtitle: Music and Temporality in the Romantic ERA
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780190206055
Subjects: Music, history and criticism, 19th century; Music, philosophy and aesthetics
Description: 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.