The sublime – that elusive encounter with overwhelming height, power or limits – has had a long relationship with music, from the early-modern rise of interest in the Longinian sublime to its …

In 2021, nearly all the participants in the ANR SublimAE questionnaire gave precise answers when asked to identify a piece of music that elicited in them an experience of the sublime.

This introductory chapter sets out the book's main argument that, in contemporary debates on instrumental music and the sublime, the undecidability ascribed to the former comes to destabilize...

has been associated with music from the early-modern rise of interest in the Longinian sublime to its saturation of European culture in the later nineteenth century and beyond. This volume offers a …

See Hur (2020) and Hur et al. (2020; 2022) for more in-depth discussions regarding the relevance and limits of Edmund Burke’s assumptions of the sublime, both as sublimity being opposed to beauty and …

And I’d like to declare a sublime within the Sublime of Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony, a chord which gets special treatment through repetition and then subtle modal shading.

isy, rustling, silent? Miranda Eva Stanyon rereads and resounds this crucial aesthetic category in English and German literatures of the long eighteenth century from a musical perspective and shows …