Hardy, History, and Recorded Music

This chapter is a meditation in three parts on the meaning of music in literature: music as an abstract notation which seems to offer the possibility of encoding temporality and history; music as performed on or by the human instrument—especially the fingertips; and finally, recorded music, that is, music as stored by technology. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.