Music and Monumentality

Music and Monumentality
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 522
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ISBN-10 : 9780199888894
ISBN-13 : 0199888892
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Book Synopsis Music and Monumentality by : Alexander Rehding

Download or read book Music and Monumentality written by Alexander Rehding and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-19 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical study locates musical monumentality, a central property of the nineteenth-century German repertoire, at the intersections of aesthetics and memory. In examples including Beethoven, Liszt, Wagner and Bruckner, Rehding explores how monumentality contributes to an experiential music history and how it conveys the sublime to the listening public.


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