Music, Subjectivity, and Schumann

Music, Subjectivity, and Schumann

Author: Benedict Taylor

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-04-07

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 1009158082

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What is musical subjectivity? Drawing on philosophy and critical theory, Benedict Taylor investigates this concept in relation to Schumann.


Music, Subjectivity, and Schumann

Music, Subjectivity, and Schumann

Author: Benedict Taylor

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-04-07

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 1009178490

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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.


Clara Schumann Studies

Clara Schumann Studies

Author: Joe Davies

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-12-02

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1108489842

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Develops a holistic and gender-aware understanding of Clara Schumann as pianist, composer and teacher in nineteenth-century Germany.