The Cambridge Companion to Music and Romanticism

Benedict Taylor is Reader in Music at the University of Edinburgh. He is author of Mendelssohn, Time and Memory (Cambridge, 2011), The Melody of Time (2015) and Towards a Harmonic Grammar of Grieg's Late Piano Music (2016). He is co-editor of the journal Music & Letters, and the recipient of the Jerome Roche Prize of the Royal Musical Association.

List of illustrations; List of musical examples and tables; List of contributors; Preface; Chronology; Part I. Horizons: 1. Defining the indefinable: romanticism and music Benedict Taylor; 2. The emergence of romanticism Keith Chapin; Part II. Worlds: 3. Music in romantic literature and poetry Miranda Stanyon; 4. Music, romantic landscape, and the visual Thomas Peattie; 5. Romanticism, the folk, and musical nationalisms Matthew Gelbart; 6. Music, romanticism, and politics Katherine Hambridge; 7. Music and technology John Tresch; 8. Music, magic, and the supernatural Francesca Brittan; 9. A kingdom not of this world: music, religion, art-religion James Garratt; Part III. Aesthetics: 10. Music in early German romantic philosophy Tomás McAuley; 11. Meaning and value in romantic musical aesthetics Alexander Wilfing; 12. Music and romantic interiority Holly Watkins; 13. Music, expression, and the aesthetics of authenticity Karen Leistra-Jones; Part IV. Practices: 14. Romantic languages Julian Horton; 15. Romantic forms Steven Vande Moortele; 16. Romanticism and the ideal of song Lisa Feurzeig; 17. Music staged and unstaged Sarah Hibberd; 18. Romanticism and performance Dana Gooley; Part V. Histories: 19. Musical romanticism as a historiographical construct Nicole Grimes; 20. The end(s) of musical romanticism Sebastian Wedler; Select bibliography; Index.