Esthetics of Music

Name: Esthetics of Music
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ISBN: 9780521280075

ISBN-10: 0521280079

ISBN-13: 9780521280075

Edition: 1982

Authors: Carl Dahlhaus, William Austin

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This book is an introduction to the esthetics of music. Aesthetics, which were of prime importance in thinking about music in the nineteenth century, are today sometimes suspected of being idle speculation. Yet judgments about music and every sort of musical activity are based on aesthetic presuppositions. Carl Dahlhaus gives an account of developments in the aesthetics of music from the mid-eighteenth century onwards. He combines a historical and systematic approach. Central themes in music are grouped together to illustrate both the historical course of events and a systematic unity of the essential elements in the aesthetics of music. For this edition, the late Carl Dahlhaus provided an…

Book details

List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 1982
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/25/1982
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 128
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English



Author's preface to the English edition


Translator's introduction



Historical starting-points



Music as text and work of art



Changing phases of the esthetics of emotion



Emancipation of instrumental music



Judgments of art and of taste



Genius, enthusiasm, technique



Affection and idea



Dialectics of 'sounding inwardness'



The quarrel over formalism



Program music



Tradition and reform in opera



Esthetics and history



Toward the phenomenology of music



Standards of criticism


Bibliography


Index