What is music, and why does it move us? From Pythagoras to the present, writers have struggled to...

Before the nineteenth century, instrumental music was considered inferior to vocal music. Kant de...

Beethoven cast a looming shadow over the nineteenth century. For composers he was a model both t...

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The Beethoven Syndrome: Hearing Music as Autobiography traces the rise, fall, and persistence of ...

Proposes a new way of listening to Beethoven by understanding his music as an expression of his e...

Hasta finales del siglo XVIII la música instrumental estaba subordinada a la vocal. Kant afirmaba...

Beethoven's music expresses far more than just the iconic scowl we so often imagine when listenin...

In Absolute Music: The History of an Idea, author Mark Evan Bonds examines how writers have strug...

Music's Fourth Wall and the Rise of Reflective Listening examines fundamental changes in concert-...