Format:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (224 p.))
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Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780511518348
Series Statement:
Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and Analysis no. 7
Content:
Can an abstract theory of Empfindsamkeit aesthetics have any value to a musician wishing to study composition in the classical style? The eighteenth-century German theorist and pedagogue Heinrich Koch showed how this question could be answered with a resounding yes. Starting with the systematic aesthetic theory of the Swiss encyclopedist Johann Sulzer, Koch was creatively able to adapt Sulzer's conservative ideas on ethical mimesis and rhetoric to concrete problems of music analysis and composition. In this collaborative study, Thomas Christensen and Nancy Baker have translated and analysed selected writings of Sulzer and Koch respectively, bringing to life a little-known confluence of philosophical and musical thought from the German Enlightenment. Koch's appropriation of Sulzer's ideas to the service of music represents an important development in the evolution of Western musical thought.
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Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Feb 2013)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521360357
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Sulzer, Johann Georg, 1720 - 1779 Aesthetics and the art of musical composition in the German enlightenment Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 1995 ISBN 0521360358
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521035095
Language:
English
Subjects:
Musicology
Keywords:
Deutschland
;
Musikästhetik
;
Geschichte 1680-1790
;
Aufklärung
;
Musikästhetik
;
Deutschland
;
Deutschland
;
Komposition
;
Geschichte 1680-1790
;
Aufklärung
;
Komposition
;
Deutschland
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511518348
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Author information:
Sulzer, Johann Georg 1720-1779
Author information:
Koch, Heinrich Christoph 1749-1816
