1720, 9th February 2016 - Benedict Taylor: Talking about Music Musically: On the Necessity of Overcoming Methodology, and its Necessary Failure
Benedict Taylor's research interests concentrate historically on Classical-Romantic music from Haydn to the Second Viennese School, though he has published more broadly on music stretching from Handel to Messiaen, and his background specialisation in German and British music is counterbalanced by a sympathy for a far wider range of European and American musics. Although ranging from theoretical accounts of form and harmony to more philosophical studies of time and subjectivity, generally his work seeks to meld close analytical engagement with the musical work and its experience with wider aesthetic questions of meaning.