Music and Modernity in Laurence Sterne: The Dialectics of Harmony and Dissonance

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Music and Modernity in Laurence Sterne: The Dialectics of Harmony and Dissonance

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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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Dubois, Pierre

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Société d'études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
XVII-XVIII

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2016-12-05

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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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urn:doi:10.4000/1718.690
http://journals.openedition.org/1718/690

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en

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info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/0291-3798
info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2117-590X

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