April 13, 2007
Classical Music, Now and Then
To better understand the pleasures of the symphony, Melanie Lowe, an assistant professor of musicology at Vanderbilt University, tries on some historical ears.
In Pleasure and Meaning in the Classical Symphony, Lowe imagines herself, with historical glosses bolstering her scenarios, as three members of late-18th-century audiences listening for the first and only time to Haydn's Symphony in G major, No. 88. She integrates these case studies into a broad theoretical consideration of
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