Event of Music History - J. P. E. Harper-Scott

This book presents a new theory of how to write music history, and offers an exemplar of this new theory in action, in a series of four chapter-length reflexions on Beethoven's heroic style. The first book-length theory of music history since Carl Dahlhaus's Foundations of Music History, it brings musicology to the cutting edge of debates in the postmodern philosophy of history.While the book engages with current thinking, it also goes further than the postmodern critique of history writing to find... Zobrazit více