Music, Subjectivity, and Schumann
- Author: Benedict Taylor, University of Edinburgh
- Date Published: August 2024
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781009158077
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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.
Read more- A long-overdue critique of the popular yet often ill-defined notion of musical subjectivity
- The first extended account of the relation between Schumann's music and the idea of subjectivity
- Approaches the question of subjectivity from critical, philosophical and musical perspectives
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- Date Published: August 2024
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781009158077
- length: 380 pages
- dimensions: 244 x 170 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.657kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preamble: Schumann, Subjectivity
Prosopopoeic Preliminaries:
1. Defining subjectivity
Part I. Hearing Subjects:
2. Hearing the self
3. Hearing selves
Part II. Hearing Presence:
4. Presence of the self
5. Presence of the other
Part III. Hearing Absence:
6. Absence of the other
7. Absence of the self
Part IV. Hearing Others:
8. Hearing another's voice
9. Hearing oneself as another
Epilogue:
10. Hearing ourselves.
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