This Companion presents a new understanding of the relationship between music and culture in and around the nineteenth century, and encourages readers to explore what Romanticism in music might mean today. Challenging the view that musical 'romanticism' is confined to a particular style or period, it reveals instead the multiple intersections between the phenomenon of Romanticism and music. Drawing on a variety of disciplinary approaches, and reflecting current scholarly debates across the humanities, it places music at the heart of a nexus of Romantic themes and concerns. Written by a dynamic team of leading younger scholars and established authorities, it gives a state-of-the-art yet accessible overview of current thinking on this popular topic.

A stimulating new approach to understanding the relationship between music and culture in the long nineteenth century.

About the Author
Benedict Taylor is Reader in Music at the University of Edinburgh. He is author of Mendelssohn, Time and Memory (Cambridge, 2011), The Melody of Time (2015) and Towards a Harmonic Grammar of Grieg's Late Piano Music (2016). He is co-editor of the journal Music & Letters, and the recipient of the Jerome Roche Prize of the Royal Musical Association.


Book Information
ISBN 9781108475433
Author Benedict Taylor
Format Hardback
Page Count 320
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 937g
Dimensions(mm) 250mm * 175mm * 24mm