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German music criticism in the late eighteenth century :

(Number (ISBN

052158227X

(Number (ISBN

9780521582278

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b757985

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German music criticism in the late eighteenth century :

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[Book]

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aesthetic issues in instrumental music /

First Statement of Responsibility

Mary Sue Morrow.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1997.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xiii, 253 pages :

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music ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 158-245) and index.

Text of Note

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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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.

Instrumental music-- Germany-- 18th century-- History and criticism.

Music-- Germany-- 18th century-- Philosophy and aesthetics.

Musical criticism-- Germany.

Nationalism in music.

Critique musicale-- Allemagne.

Musique-- Allemagne-- 18e siècle-- Philosophie et esthétique.

Musique instrumentale-- Allemagne-- 18e siècle-- Histoire et critique.

Nationalisme dans la musique.

Instrumental music-- Germany-- 18th century-- History and criticism.

Instrumental music.

Instrumentale muziek.

Instrumentalmusik

Music and rhetoric.

Music-- Philosophy and aesthetics.

Music-- Philosophy and aesthetics.

Musical criticism-- Germany-- 18th century.

Musical criticism.

Musikästhetik

Musikkritik

Muziekkritiek.

Nationalism in music.

Nationalism in music.

Deutschland.

Germany.

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Morrow, Mary Sue,1953-

Date of Transaction

20201204180529.0

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[Book]

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