Music and Monumentality

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Music and Monumentality is written by Alexander Rehding and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0199736650 (ISBN 10) and 9780199736652 (ISBN 13).

This critical study locates musical monumentality, a central property of the nineteenth-century German repertoire, at the intersections of aesthetics and memory. In examples including Beethoven, Liszt, Wagner and Bruckner, Rehding explores how monumentality contributes to an experiential music history and how it conveys the sublime to the listening public.