Seminar in Nineteenth Century Music

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Topic for Fall 2025: The Mediation of Nineteenth-Century Music This seminar will explore the mediation of nineteenth-century European music by investigating the philosophical, aesthetic, and technological conditions that engendered and sustained it. How were musical content and form conceptualized, materialized, transmitted, and stored, particularly in relation to shifting ways of imagining and materializing sound? The seminar will frame these questions via theoretical readings and address them in specific contexts via music-historical and analytical discourse.