Format:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (268 p.))
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Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780511549427
Content:
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 like Haydn and Mozart. This book derives a practical aesthetic for German instrumental music during the late eighteenth century from a previously neglected source, reviews of printed instrumental works. At a time when the theory of mimesis dominated aesthetic thought, leaving sonatas and symphonies at the very bottom of the aesthetic hierarchy, a group of reviewers were quietly setting about the task of evaluating instrumental music on its own terms. The reviews document an intersection with trends in literature and philosophy, and reveal interest in criteria like genius, the expressive power of music, and the necessity of unity, several decades earlier than has previously been supposed
Content:
Acknowledgements -- Author's notes -- Introduction: terms of discource -- What does instrumental music mean? -- Answering with a unified voice -- Answering with a German voice -- Answering with aesthetic criteria -- The importance of being correct -- The reign of genius -- A call to order -- Epilogue: segue to the nineteenth century -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521582278
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521027458
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Morrow, Mary Sue, 1953 - German music criticism in the late eighteenth century Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997 ISBN 052158227X
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521582278
Language:
English
Subjects:
Musicology
Keywords:
Deutschland
;
Instrumentalmusik
;
Musikästhetik
;
Geschichte 1750-1800
;
Deutschland
;
Musikkritik
;
Geschichte 1750-1800
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511549427
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