Aesthetics and the Art of Musical Composition in the German Enlightenment
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication date:
- 30 September 2009
- 21 March 1996
- ISBN:
- 9780511518348
- 9780521360357
- 9780521035095
- Dimensions:
- (228 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.455kg, 224 Pages
- Dimensions:
- (228 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.339kg, 224 Pages
- Series:
- Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and Analysis (7)
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Book description
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.
Reviews
‘… the translations are elegant and thoughtfully done, with helpful annotations and there are useful introductory essays on Sulzer and Koch by the two editors … the extracts translated provide a very useful indication of the musical intellectual thought in German-speaking countries in the late 18th century.’
Source: Musical Times
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