E T A Hoffmann S Musical Aesthetics

Author : Abigail Chantler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
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Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351569101

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E.T.A. Hoffmann's Musical Aesthetics by Abigail Chantler Pdf

Whilst E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) is most widely known as the author of fantastic tales, he was also prolific as a music critic, productive as a composer, and active as a conductor. This book examines Hoffmann's aesthetic thought within the broader context of the history of ideas of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, and explores the relationship between his musical aesthetics and compositional practice. The first three chapters consider his ideas about creativity and aesthetic appreciation in relation to the thought of other German romantic theorists, discussing the central tenets of his musical aesthetic - the idea of a 'religion of art', of the composer as a 'genius', and the listener as a 'passive genius'. In particular the relationship between the multifaceted thought of Hoffmann and Friedrich Schleiermacher is explored, providing some insight into the way in which diverse intellectual traditions converged in early-nineteenth-century Germany. In the second half of the book, Hoffmann's dialectical view of music history and his conception of romantic opera are discussed in relation to his activities as a composer, with reference to his instrumental music and his two mature, large-scale operas, Aurora and Undine. The author also addresses broader issues pertaining to the ideological and historical significance of Hoffmann's musical and literary oeuvre.

Author : Abigail Chantler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351569118

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E.T.A. Hoffmann's Musical Aesthetics by Abigail Chantler Pdf

Whilst E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) is most widely known as the author of fantastic tales, he was also prolific as a music critic, productive as a composer, and active as a conductor. This book examines Hoffmann's aesthetic thought within the broader context of the history of ideas of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, and explores the relationship between his musical aesthetics and compositional practice. The first three chapters consider his ideas about creativity and aesthetic appreciation in relation to the thought of other German romantic theorists, discussing the central tenets of his musical aesthetic - the idea of a 'religion of art', of the composer as a 'genius', and the listener as a 'passive genius'. In particular the relationship between the multifaceted thought of Hoffmann and Friedrich Schleiermacher is explored, providing some insight into the way in which diverse intellectual traditions converged in early-nineteenth-century Germany. In the second half of the book, Hoffmann's dialectical view of music history and his conception of romantic opera are discussed in relation to his activities as a composer, with reference to his instrumental music and his two mature, large-scale operas, Aurora and Undine. The author also addresses broader issues pertaining to the ideological and historical significance of Hoffmann's musical and literary oeuvre.

Author : Edward A. Lippman
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0803279841

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The Philosophy & Aesthetics of Music by Edward A. Lippman Pdf

Edward A. Lippman?s writings on musical aesthetics comprise a wide variety of areas and employ both systematic and historical approaches, reflecting throughout his unrivaled knowledge of the philosophical literature on music and his deep understanding of the musical repertory. These essays span a broad range of subjects, from the ancients? sense of what music encompasses to the experience of rhythm in Anton Webern?s work. ø Lippman surveys the physical and physiological factors that condition musical perception, and he explores the effect of sung text in vocal music. In the more purely philosophical realm, he argues persuasively that music speaks in its own terms, not in any formalistic sense but through the symbolic meanings it conveys. ø The historically focused essays include investigations of the aesthetic thinking of Wagner and Schumann, an endeavor that leads Lippman to probe the sources and drives behind musical creativity. Elsewhere he explores the development of particular musical styles. The Philosophy and Aesthetics of Music draws upon both philosophy and musicology in demonstrating how the interpretation of music extends far beyond the scope of conventional theory and analysis.

Author : Stephen Downes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781136486906

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Aesthetics of Music by Stephen Downes Pdf

Aesthetics of Music: Musicological Approaches is an anthology of fourteen essays, each addressing a single key concept or pair of terms in the aesthetics of music, collectively serving as an authoritative work on musical aesthetics that remains as close to 'the music' as possible. Each essay includes musical examples from works in the 18th, 19th, and into the 20th century. Topics have been selected from amongst widely recognised central issues in musical aesthetics, as well as those that have been somewhat neglected, to create a collection that covers a distinctive range of ideas. All essays cover historical origins, sources, and developments of the chosen idea, survey important musicological approaches, and offer new critical angles or musical case studies in interpretation.

Author : Holly Watkins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781139501590

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Metaphors of Depth in German Musical Thought by Holly Watkins Pdf

What does it mean to say that music is deeply moving? Or that music's aesthetic value derives from its deep structure? This study traces the widely employed trope of musical depth to its origins in German-language music criticism and analysis. From the Romantic aesthetics of E. T. A. Hoffmann to the modernist theories of Arnold Schoenberg, metaphors of depth attest to the cross-pollination of music with discourses ranging from theology, geology and poetics to psychology, philosophy and economics. The book demonstrates that the persistence of depth metaphors in musicology and music theory today is an outgrowth of their essential role in articulating and transmitting Germanic cultural values. While musical depth metaphors have historically served to communicate German nationalist sentiments, Watkins shows that an appreciation for the broad connotations of those metaphors opens up exciting new avenues for interpretation.

Author : Holly Watkins
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780226594842

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Musical Vitalities by Holly Watkins Pdf

Does it make sense to refer to bird song—a complex vocalization, full of repetitive and transformative patterns that are carefully calculated to woo a mate—as art? What about a pack of wolves howling in unison or the cacophony made by an entire rain forest? Redefining music as “the art of possibly animate things,” Musical Vitalities charts a new path for music studies that blends musicological methods with perspectives drawn from the life sciences. In opposition to humanist approaches that insist on a separation between culture and nature—approaches that appear increasingly untenable in an era defined by human-generated climate change—Musical Vitalities treats music as one example of the cultural practices and biotic arts of the animal kingdom rather than as a phenomenon categorically distinct from nonhuman forms of sonic expression. The book challenges the human exceptionalism that has allowed musicologists to overlook music’s structural resemblances to the songs of nonhuman species, the intricacies of music’s physiological impact on listeners, and the many analogues between music’s formal processes and those of the dynamic natural world. Through close readings of Austro-German music and aesthetic writings that suggest wide-ranging analogies between music and nature, Musical Vitalities seeks to both rekindle the critical potential of nineteenth-century music and rejoin the humans at the center of the humanities with the nonhumans whose evolutionary endowments and planetary fates they share.

Author : Francien Markx
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004309579

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E. T. A. Hoffmann, Cosmopolitanism, and the Struggle for German Opera by Francien Markx Pdf

In E. T. A. Hoffmann, Cosmopolitanism, and the Struggle for German Opera, Francien Markx investigates Hoffmann’s writings on opera, discovering in them a number of challenges to traditional narratives of aesthetic autonomy, the search for a national opera, and Hoffmann’s biography.

Author : Férdia J. Stone-Davis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317092230

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Music and Transcendence by Férdia J. Stone-Davis Pdf

Music and Transcendence explores the ways in which music relates to transcendence by bringing together the disciplines of musicology, philosophy and theology, thereby uncovering congruencies between them that have often been obscured. Music has the capacity to take one outside of oneself and place one in relation to that which is ’other’. This ’other’ can be conceived in an ’absolute’ sense, insofar as music can be thought to place the self in relation to a divine ’other’ beyond the human frame of existence. However, the ’other’ can equally well be conceived in an ’immanent’ (or secular) sense, as music is a human activity that relates to other cultural practices. Music here places the self in relation to other people and to the world more generally, shaping how the world is understood, without any reference to a God or gods. The book examines how music has not only played a significant role in many philosophical and theological accounts of the nature of existence and the self, but also provides a valuable resource for the creation of meaning on a day-to-day basis.

Author : Carl Dahlhaus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1982-02-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521280079

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Esthetics of Music by Carl Dahlhaus Pdf

An account of developments in the aesthetics of music from the mid-eighteenth century onwards.

Author : Lydia Goehr
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1992-03-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780191520013

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The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works : An Essay in the Philosophy of Music by Lydia Goehr Pdf

What is the difference between a performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and the symphony itself? What does it mean for musicians to be faithful to the works they perform? To answer such questions, Lydia Goehr combines philosophical and historical methods of enquiry. Finding Anglo-American philosophy inadequate for the task, she shows that a historical perspective is indispensable to a full understanding of musical ontology. Goehr examines the concepts and assumptions behind the practice of classical music in the nineteenth century and demonstrates how different they were from those of previous centuries. She rejects the finding that the concept of a musical work emerged in the sixteenth century, placing its emergence instead around 1800. She describes how the concept of a work then came to define the norms, expectations, and behaviour that we now associate with classical music. Out of the historical thesis Goehr draws philosophical conclusions about the normative functions of concepts and ideals. She also addresses current debates among conductors, early music performers, and avant-gardists. - ;Introduction; I. The Analytic Approach: Status and identity: Analytical positions I; Analytical positions II; Critique and transition; II. The Historical Approach: Normativity and Practice: The central claim; Musical meaning I; Musical meaning II; Musical production I; Musical production II; Werktreue: Confirmation and challenge -

Author : John MacAuslan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107141230

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Schumann's Music and E.T.A. Hoffmann's Fiction by John MacAuslan Pdf

John MacAuslan interprets four great Schumann works in the context of their literary connections and Romantic aesthetic concepts.

Author : Bellamy Hosler
Publisher : Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042431903

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Changing Aesthetic Views of Instrumental Music in 18th Century Germany by Bellamy Hosler Pdf

Author : Edward A. Lippman
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0803279515

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A History of Western Musical Aesthetics by Edward A. Lippman Pdf

Among the fine arts music has always held a paramount position. "Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, " wrote Plato. From the "music of the spheres" of Pythagoras to the "Future Music" of Wagner, from churches, courts, cathedrals, and concert halls to amateur recitals, military marches, and electronic records, music has commanded the perpetual attention of every civilization in history. This book follows through the centuries the debates about the place and function of music, the perceived role of music as a good or bad influence on the development of character, as a magical art or a domestic entertainment, and as a gateway to transcendental truths. Edward Lippman describes the beginnings of musical tradition in the myths and philosophies of antiquity. He shows how music theory began to take on new dimensions and intensity in the seventeenth century, how musical aesthetics was specifically defined and elaborated in the eighteenth century, and how, by the nineteenth century, music became the standard by which other arts were judged. The twentieth century added problems, pressure, and theories as music continued to diversify and as cultures viewed each other with more respect.

Author : James H. Donelan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781139471145

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Poetry and the Romantic Musical Aesthetic by James H. Donelan Pdf

James H. Donelan describes how two poets, a philosopher and a composer – Hölderlin, Wordsworth, Hegel and Beethoven – developed an idea of self-consciousness based on music at the turn of the nineteenth century. This idea became an enduring cultural belief: the understanding of music as an ideal representation of the autonomous creative mind. Against a background of political and cultural upheaval, these four major figures – all born in 1770 – developed this idea in both metaphorical and actual musical structures, thereby establishing both the theory and the practice of asserting self-identity in music. Beethoven still carries the image of the heroic composer today; this book describes how it originated in both his music and in how others responded to him. Bringing together the fields of philosophy, musicology, and literary criticism, Donelan shows how this development emerged from the complex changes in European cultural life taking place between 1795 and 1831.

Author : Mark Evan Bonds
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199343638

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Absolute Music by Mark Evan Bonds Pdf

What we think music is shapes how we hear it. This book traces the history of the idea of pure - 'absolute' - music from Pythagoras to the present, with special emphasis on efforts to reconcile the irreducible essence of the art with its profound effects on the human spirit. The core of this study focuses on the period 1850-1935, beginning with the collision between Richard Wagner and the Viennese critic Eduard Hanslick.