This book is born out of two contradictions: first, it explores the making of meaning in a musical form that was made to lose its meaning at the turn of the nin

Twelve brilliant historians of theory probe the mind of the Romantic era in its thinking about music.

This volume examines a single music-aesthetical idea from various historical and philosophical backgrounds. In exploring the origins of the idea and its career

With contributions from a range of internationally known early music scholars and performers, Tess Knighton and David Fallows provide a lively new survey of mus

What we think music is shapes how we hear it. This book traces the history of the idea of pure - 'absolute' - music from Pythagoras to the present, with special