Music and Monumentality

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.

Alexander Rehding is Professor of Music at Harvard University and co-editor of Acta musicological. His research specializes in nineteenth and twentieth century music and in the history of music theory. He is the author of Hugo Riemann and the Birth of Modern Musical Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2003).

Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction - Facets of musical monumentality
1: - Musical Apotheoses
2: - Sounding Souvenirs
3: - Classical Values
4: - Collective Historia
5: - Faustian Descents
Epilogue - Beethoven's Ninth at the Wall
Bibliography
Index