Book of Donmon Teith

What is musical subjectivity? Drawing on philosophy and critical theory, Benedict Taylor investigates this concept in relation to Schumann.

The concept of subjectivity is one of the most popular in recent scholarly accounts of music; it is also one of the obscurest and most ill-defined. Multifaceted

What does it mean to say that music is deeply moving? Or that music's aesthetic value derives from its deep structure? This study traces the widely employed tro

Reviews of specific compositions are accompanied by Schumann's articles and epigrams on all aspects of music

This introduction to the aesthetics and sociology of music of the German philosopher and music theorist T. W. Adorno is the only book to deal comprehensively wi