Screen LibraryMusic and the sonorous sublime in European culture, 1680-1880 /
"The sublime - that elusive encounter with overwhelming height, power or limits - has had a long relationship with music, from the early-modern rise of interest in the Longinian sublime to its saturation of European culture in the later nineteenth century and beyond. Music sits in productive te...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge : |
| Publication Dates: |
2022. ©2020 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First paperback edition. |
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| Summary: |
"The sublime - that elusive encounter with overwhelming height, power or limits - has had a long relationship with music, from the early-modern rise of interest in the Longinian sublime to its saturation of European culture in the later nineteenth century and beyond. Music sits in productive tension with the sublime in many foundational texts. Yet sustained attention to this relationship has been relatively uncommon. Scholars in other fields have called for a moratorium on studies of the sublime, yet there are remarkably few books dedicated to the sublime and music. Drawing together perspectives from musicology, sound studies, literary studies, intellectual history and theology, this collection offers a perspective on music that responds to current understandings of the sublime as a pre-disciplinary category traversing the arts, sciences and humanities"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xv, 305 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-296) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781108708043 1108708048 9781108486590 1108486592 |
| Index Number: | ML3877 |
| CLC: | J601-09 |
| Call Number: | J601-09/M987 |
| Contents: |
Sonorous sublimes : An introduction / Thunder or celestial harmony : French theological debates on the sonorous sublime / 'A pleasing rape' : John Dennis, music and the queer sublime / The idea of the past in eighteenth-century British music / C. P. E. Bach and the neoclassical sublime : Revisions of a concept / Cherubini's Médée and sublime vengeance / When does the sublime stop? : Cavatinas and quotations in Haydn's Seasons / Counterfeits, contraltos and harmony in De Quincey's Sublime / The consecration of sound : Sublime musical creation in Haydn, Weber and Spohr / Commanding performances : Opera, surrogation and the royal sublime in 1848 / Wagner's sublime effects : Bells, cannon and the perception of heavy sound / |