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The Melody of Time - Music and Temporality in the Romantic Era (Hardcover)
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The Melody of Time - Music and Temporality in the Romantic Era (Hardcover)
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From the Romantic era onwards, music has been seen as the most
quintessentially temporal art, possessing a unique capacity to
invoke the human experience of time. Through its play of themes and
recurrence of events, music has the ability to stylise in multiple
ways our temporal relation to the world, with far-reaching
implications for modern conceptions of memory, subjectivity,
personal and collective identity, and history. Time, as
philosophers, scientists and writers have found throughout history,
is notoriously hard to define. Yet music, seemingly bound up so
intimately with the nature of time, might well be understood as
disclosing aspects of human temporality unavailable to other modes
of inquiry, and accordingly was frequently granted a privileged
position in nineteenth-century thought. The Melody of Time examines
the multiple ways in which music relates to, and may provide
insight into, the problematics of human time. Each chapter explores
a specific theme in the philosophy of time as expressed through
music: the purported timelessness of Beethoven's late works or the
nostalgic impulses of Schubert's music; the use of music by
philosophers as a means to explicate the aporias of temporal
existence or as a medium suggestive of the varying possible
structures of time; and, a reflection of a particular culture's
sense of historical progress or the expression of the intangible
spirit behind the course of human history itself. Moving fluidly
between cultural context and historical reception, competing
philosophical theories of time and close reading of the repertoire,
Benedict Taylor argues for the continued importance of engaging
with music's temporality in understanding the significance of music
within society and human experience. At once historical,
analytical, critical, and ultimately hermeneutic, The Melody of
Time provides both fresh insight into many familiar
nineteenth-century pieces and a rich theoretical basis for future
research.
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