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German Music Criticism in the Late Eighteenth Century
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Aesthetic Issues in Instrumental Music
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Artikel-Nr:
9780521582278
Veröffentl:
2003
Einband:
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Erscheinungsdatum:
18.10.2003
Seiten:
268
Autor:
Mary Sue Morrow
Gewicht:
592 g
Format:
235x157x20 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Music aesthetics in late-eighteenth-century Germany has always been problematic because there was no aesthetic theory to evaluate the enormous amount of high-quality instrumental music produced by composers such as Haydn and Mozart. This book derives a practical aesthetic theory from an analysis of 1,300 reviews of instrumental music published in Germany between 1760 and 1798. The reviews document an intersection with trends in literature and philosophy, and reveal interest in criteria such as genius, the expressive power of music, and the necessity of unity, several decades earlier than has previously been supposed.
Acknowledgements; Author's note; Introduction: terms of discourse; 1. What does instrumental music mean?; 2. Answering with a unified voice; 3. Answering with a German voice; 4. Answering with aesthetic criteria; 5. The importance of being correct; 6. The reign of genius; 7. A call to order; 8. Epilogue: segue to the nineteenth century; Notes; Bibliography; Index.