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The Virtuoso as Subject
This book offers a novel interpretation of the sudden and steep decline of instrumental virtuosity in its critical reception between c. 1815 and c. 1850, documenting it with a large number of examples from Europe’s leading music periodicals at the time. The increasingly hostile critical reception of instrumental virtuosity during this period is interpreted from the perspective of contemporary aesthetics and philosophical conceptions of human subjectivity; the book’s main thesis is that virtuosity qua irreducibly bodily performance generated so much hostility because it was deemed incompatible with, and even threatening to, the new Romantic philosophical conception of music as a radically...
Bilingualism in Society and School
This work comprises papers from the 5th Nordic Conference on Bilingualism, held at The Royal Danish School of Education Studies, Copenhagen on June 22nd-25th, 1987.
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