Romantic Music Aesthetics - Creating a Politics of Emotion

"Romantic music aesthetics has often been reduced to tired clichâes of ineffable feeling and art for art's sake. This book instead explores the groundbreaking philosophical insights and radical politics that Romantic thinkers applied to music - both popular and classical - and the emotions it inspires"--

List of contents

Table of contents; Figures; Music examples; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Staging sentimentality; 2. The legacy of Rousseau; 3. The composer as genius; 4. Idealist aesthetics and the music critic; 5. Picturing the musical Absolute; 6. Between idealism and realism I: the French socialists; 7. Between idealism and realism II: after Hegel; 8. From Hanslick to the twentieth century; Conclusion: The fate of feeling; Bibliography.

About the author

Matthew Pritchard is Lecturer in Musical Aesthetics at the University of Leeds. He co-edited the volume Remixing Music Studies: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Cook (2020), and has published articles on music aesthetics, as well as translations of key texts, ranging across the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries and from Germany to Bengal.

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Pritchard, Matthew (University of Leeds) Pritchard, Pritchard Matthew
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2024
• EAN: 9781009491648
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0949164-8
• No. of pages: 276
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history; English, MUSIC / History & Criticism, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Philosophy: aesthetics, Romanticism, Western Europe, Music reviews & criticism, Music reviews and criticism, C 1700 To C 1800, Western Continental Europe, For higher / tertiary / university education