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Music, Subjectivity, and Schumann
About This Book
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 Schumannoffers 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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Examples
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Preamble
- Prosopopoeic Preliminaries
- Part I Hearing Subjects
- Part II Hearing Presence
- Part III Hearing Absence
- Part IV Hearing Others
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index