PURE AND PROGRAMME MUSIC IN THE ROMANTICISM.

One of the most difficult challenges a music theoretician faces, be it historically, philosophically or in other aspects, is that of correctly and precisely framing the meaning that music has in a specific moment: deducing the why and revealing the secret hidden w ithin. The book Pure and Programme Music in the Romanticism, a rigorous and indispensable study to understand music in the period in which music as an expression of feelings, begins to reach the threshold of the sublime -primarily focusing attention on what pure a nd progr...[Read more]