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Listening to Reason: Culture, Subjectivity, and Nineteenth-Century Music. By Michael P. Steinberg. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004. [xiv, 246 p. ISBN 0-691-11685-7. $29.95.] Illustrations, index.
With Listening to Reason: Culture, Subjectivity, and Nineteenth-Century Music, Michael P. Steinberg offers a provocative, intermittently brilliant rooting of nineteenth-century music--that is. "the long 19th-century" that encompasses Mozart at one end and Schoenberg at the other--in contemporaneous cultural and intellectual history. Few major German composers of the era go unexamined, and few readers are likely to walk away from the book with their ...