Romantic Music Aesthetics (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781009491648)

This book reassesses the place of politics and emotion within Romantic music aesthetics. Drawing together insights from the history of emotions, cultural history, and studies of philosophical idealism, 'affective relationality' - the channelling of emotion through music's social and cultural synergies - emerges as key to Romantic aesthetic thought. Now familiar concepts such as theatrical illusion, genius, poetic criticism, and the renewed connection of art to mythology and religion opened new spaces for audiences' feelings, as thinkers such as Rousseau, Herder, Germaine de Sta?l, Joseph Mainzer, Pierre Leroux and George Sand sought alternatives to the political status quo. Building on the sentimental tradition in eighteenth-century art and politics, the Romantics created ways of listening to music imbued not just with melancholic longing for transcendence but also with humour, gothic fantasy, satire, and political solidarity. The consequences have extended far beyond the classical concert hall into numerous domains of popular culture from melodrama, romances and political songwriting to musical theatre and film.

Author: Matthew Pritchard
ISBN-10: 1009491644
ISBN-13: 9781009491648
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/21/2024
Pages: 276
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.69d