During a period of tumultuous change in English political, religious and cultural life, music signified the unspeakable presence of the divine in the world for

By showing how music intersected with wider cultural affairs, such as philosophy and criticism, this book connects music and the modern in eighteenth-century Sp

The book about John Michell (1724-93) has two parts. The first and longest part is biographical, an account of Michell’s home setting (Nottinghamshire in Engl

How and why do listeners come over time to 'feel the nation' through particular musical works? This book develops a comparative analysis of the relationship bet

How was music depicted in and mediated through Romantic and Victorian poetry? This is the central question that this specially commissioned volume of essays set