Aesthetics and the Art of Musical Composition in the German Enlightenment: Selected Writings of Johann Georg Sulzer and Heinrich Christoph Koch

ISBN-13: 9780521360357 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 224 str.

Heinrich Christoph Koch;Johann Georg Sulzer;Nancy Baker

Opis

The writings of Sulzer and Koch represent a significant confluence of philosophical and musical thought from the German Enlightenment. Koch creatively adapted many of Sulzer's abstract philosophical ideas to concrete questions of musical pedagogy, showing how they could be usefully applied to the teaching and analysis of musical composition. This collaborative study and translation of the texts will be of interest to all historians of music, music theory, and historians of eighteenth-century German aesthetic thought.

Recenzje

'… 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.' Musical Times

Spis treści

Foreword Ian Bent; Part I. Johann Georg Sulzer: General Theory of the Fine Arts (1771–74): Selected Articles; Introduction Thomas Christensen; 1. Aesthetic foundations; 2. The creative process; 3. Musical issues; Part II. Heinrich Christoph Koch: Introductory Essay on Composition, Vol. II (1787); Introduction Nancy Kovaleff Baker; Preface; Introduction; 4. The aim and the inner nature of compositions and, above all, the way in which they arise; Index.