Music, Subjectivity, and Schumann (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781009158084)

The concept of subjectivity is one of the most popular in recent scholarly accounts of music; it is also one of the obscurest and most ill-defined. Multifaceted and hard to pin down, subjectivity nevertheless serves an important, if not indispensable purpose, underpinning various assertions made about music and its effect on us. We may not be exactly sure what subjectivity is, but much of the reception of Western music over the last two centuries is premised upon it. Music, Subjectivity, and Schumann offers a critical examination of the notion of musical subjectivity and the first extended account of its applicability to one of the composers with whom it is most closely associated. Adopting a fluid and multivalent approach to a topic situated at the intersection of musicology, philosophy, literature, and cultural history, it seeks to provide a critical refinement of this idea and to elucidate both its importance and limits.

Author: Benedict Taylor
ISBN-10: 1009158082
ISBN-13: 9781009158084
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/07/2022
Pages: 382
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.78lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.88d