The sublime - that elusive encounter with overwhelming height, power or limits - has been associated with music from the early-modern rise of interest in the Lo

The first English-language collection on the musical sublime. Reveals music's place at the forefront of this interdisciplinary aesthetic category.

What does the sublime sound like? Harmonious, discordant, noisy, rustling, silent? Miranda Eva Stanyon rereads and resounds this crucial aesthetic category in E

This is the only collection of its kind to focus on one of the most important aspects of the cultural history of the Romantic period, its sources, and its after

This Companion presents a new understanding of the relationship between music and culture in and around the nineteenth century, and encourages readers to explor