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Shifting Paradigms: Aesthetics, Rhetoric, and Musicology in the Eighteenth and Twentieth Centuries
- Author(s):
- Lodewijk Muns (see profile)
- Date:
- 2021
- Subject(s):
- Rhetoric, History, Aesthetics, Literature, Culture, Enlightenment, Musicology, Music, Nineteenth century
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Music Aesthetics, music and language, music as rhetoric, History of Humanities, History of rhetoric, History of aesthetics, Literature and culture of the Enlightenment, 18th-century music
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/d6z4-g334
- Abstract:
- Concepts borrowed from classical rhetoric have been frequently applied to the analysis and performance of eighteenth-century music since the 1970’s. Part of the justification for this scholarly and musical practice is the evidence of ‘musical rhetoric’ found in period theory. A more controversial premise is the high cultural status and the ubiquitous presence of rhetoric during this period. This contradicts an established consensus that during the Enlightenment rhetoric was in decline, surrendering much of its authority to aesthetics. This essay offers a broader perspective on this controversy, examining both the evolution of the disciplinary borders between rhetoric and aesthetics, and the interdisciplinary reappraisal of rhetoric in the late twentieth century.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 2 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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