How not to listen to music': factual knowledge narration in 19th-century music guides Ghent University
By the end of the 19th-century, music had grown increasingly complex. Audiences lacked a viable explanation of the new structures and musical language that composers had overwhelmed them with. Music guides filled that gap: they offered new ways of talking about music (e.g. the leitmotiv)
and radically altered the discursive strategies we use to process and relate music. Long seen as a stronghold of amateurism in comparison to the ...