Music Theory in the Age of Romanticism

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Edited by Ian D. Bent

Cambridge University Press

Due/Published August 1996, 255 pages, cloth

ISBN 0521551021

How did the Romantic era hear the music of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, or Berlioz? What did it make of the Eroica, the Fantastic Symphony, or the eerie song Der Doppelganger? From many different vantage points this volume addresses this fascinating question.A group of brilliant young writers, all historians of music theory, conducts a dazzling exploration of the way in which the Romantic era thought about music. They bring to bear on their topic issues from politics, gender, metaphor, intersubjectivity, cognition, and many other realms.