Critique de la faculte de juger de la musique

The Sound of the Sublime: Notes on Burke as Time Goes By

“…Music plays a subsidiary role in his theory of the fine arts, thorn between the beautiful and the agreeable (Buch 1993). It is even a kind of counter-model against which some German Romantics will develop their metaphysical aesthetics of music, towering in Schopenhauer's 1819 The World as Will and Representation (Dahlhaus 1978).…”

“…In Britain, Handel was famous not only for composing Messiah and other oratorios, but also as the author of Zadok the Priest, the 1727 Coronation Anthem regularly performed in similar occasions. With Handel's posthumous 1784 "Great Commemoration" in the Abbey of Westminster, narrated by music historian Charles Burney, the sublime was, in a way, enthroned as the aesthetic core of state music (Buch 2003;Mathew 2009;Dubois 2009).…”