Abstract
This preface to Kramer’s ‘Music and the Rise of Narrative’, Chapter 34 of this volume, identifies several methodological issues raised by the understanding that Western ‘classical music’, instrumental music composed since the nineteenth century, frequently presents itself as a narrative genre – as musical narrative. The issues include the relationship of narrative to knowledge, technology, communications and transportation systems (including the railway journey), secrecy, and self-reflection, together with the question of whether narrative language is adequate to describe musical events. Examples of music include Brahms’s Fourth Symphony and Beethoven’s String Quartet Op. 59, no. 3.
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