Can music be political? Germans have long claimed the symphony as a pillar of their modern national culture. By 1900, the critical discourse on music, particula

A comprehensive guide to the historical, analytical and interpretative issues surrounding one of the major genres of Western music.

Theology, Music, and Modernity addresses the question: how can the study of music contribute to a theological reading of modernity? It has grown out of the conv

The symphony has long been entangled with ideas of self and value. Though standard historical accounts suggest that composers' interest in the symphony was almo

A collection of new essays bringing into view the push and pull of the national and the international in the German-language cultural field of the period. The c