Document Type
|
:
|
BL
|
Record Number
|
:
|
1003615
|
Doc. No
|
:
|
b757985
|
Main Entry
|
:
|
Morrow, Mary Sue,1953-
|
Title & Author
|
:
|
German music criticism in the late eighteenth century : : aesthetic issues in instrumental music /\ Mary Sue Morrow.
|
Publication Statement
|
:
|
Cambridge, U.K. ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 1997.
|
Page. NO
|
:
|
xiii, 253 pages :: music ;; 24 cm
|
ISBN
|
:
|
052158227X
|
|
:
|
: 9780521582278
|
Bibliographies/Indexes
|
:
|
Includes bibliographical references (pages 158-245) and index.
|
Contents
|
:
|
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.
|
Abstract
|
:
|
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.
|
Subject
|
:
|
Instrumental music-- Germany-- 18th century-- History and criticism.
|
Subject
|
:
|
Music-- Germany-- 18th century-- Philosophy and aesthetics.
|
Subject
|
:
|
Musical criticism-- Germany.
|
Subject
|
:
|
Nationalism in music.
|
Subject
|
:
|
Critique musicale-- Allemagne.
|
Subject
|
:
|
Musique instrumentale-- Allemagne-- 18e siècle-- Histoire et critique.
|
Subject
|
:
|
Musique-- Allemagne-- 18e siècle-- Philosophie et esthétique.
|
Subject
|
:
|
Nationalisme dans la musique.
|
Subject
|
:
|
Instrumental music-- Germany-- 18th century-- History and criticism.
|
Subject
|
:
|
Instrumental music.
|
Subject
|
:
|
Instrumentalmusik
|
Subject
|
:
|
Music and rhetoric.
|
Subject
|
:
|
Music-- Philosophy and aesthetics.
|
Subject
|
:
|
Music-- Philosophy and aesthetics.
|
Subject
|
:
|
Musical criticism-- Germany-- 18th century.
|
Subject
|
:
|
Musical criticism.
|
Subject
|
:
|
Musikästhetik
|
Subject
|
:
|
Musikkritik
|
Subject
|
:
|
Nationalism in music.
|
Subject
|
:
|
Nationalism in music.
|
Subject
|
:
|
Instrumentale muziek.
|
Subject
|
:
|
Muziekkritiek.
|
Subject
|
:
|
Deutschland.
|
Subject
|
:
|
Germany.
|
Dewey Classification
|
:
|
784.11/7094309033
|
LC Classification
|
:
|
ML499.3.M67 1997
|
NLM classification
|
:
|
24.50bcl
|