J. P. E. Harper-Scott is Professor of Music History and Theory at Royal Holloway, University of London, and General Editor of the Cambridge University Press series, 'Music in Context'. His work focuses on an examination of music's cultural, personal, and interpersonal significance since around 1800. It draws extensively on philosophical, cultural, and social theory and the explanatory resources of music theory, and espouses an explicitly Leftist perspective. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including Ideology in Britten's Operas (2018), The Quilting Points of Musical Modernism (2012), and Edward Elgar, Modernist (2006). He has edited essay collections with Julian Rushton (Elgar Studies, 2007) and Jim Samson (An Introduction to Music Studies, 2009), and a volume of Wagner Studies, edited with Steven Vande Moortele, is under contract to Cambridge University Press.
Introduction Music history since the fall of the Berlin Wall What is a
subject of music history? The absolute nothingness of music history
Beethoven and the heroic Thing Beethoven's emergency brake Glimpsing
Beethoven's truth content through analysis On a chord in the 'Kreutzer'
Sonata Afterword: Beethoven's faithful, reactive, and obscure music
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