Music and Modernity in Laurence Sterne: The Dialectics of Harmony and Dissonance
As is well-known, Laurence Sterne was an amateur musician who played the violin and – probably – the cello and bass viol. In the Memoirs he wrote for his daughter, he explained that “fiddling was one of [his favourite] amusements” (Letters 4). Various biographical indications testify to his knowled...
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XVII-XVIII
2016
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Περίληψη: | As is well-known, Laurence Sterne was an amateur musician who played the violin and – probably – the cello and bass viol. In the Memoirs he wrote for his daughter, he explained that “fiddling was one of [his favourite] amusements” (Letters 4). Various biographical indications testify to his knowledge of the repertory of string concertos that was the mainstay of English musical societies in the middle of the eighteenth century (Holman 84). The prevalence of musical elements in Tristram Shandy... |
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