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Between Romanticism and Modernism
- Author: Dahlhaus, Carl
but the familiar terrain is surveyed as if for the first time, and every turn reveals original perspectives
Between Romanticism and Modernism
- Author: Dahlhaus, Carl
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but the familiar terrain is surveyed as if for the first time, and every turn reveals original perspectives
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Carl Dahlhaus here treats Nietzsche's youthful analysis of the contradictions in Wagner's doctrine (and, more generally, in romantic musical aesthetics); the question of periodicization in romantic and neo-romantic music; the underlying kinship between Brahms' and Wagner's responses to the central musical problems of their time; and, the true significance of musical nationalism. Included in this volume is Walter Kauffman's translation of the previously unpublished fragment, "On Music and Words", by the young Nietzsche.
Contents
- "Neo-romanticism"
- The Twofold Truth in Wagner's Aesthetics:Nietzsche's Fragment "On Music and Words"
- Issues in Composition
- (translated in collaboration with Arnold Whittall)
- 1. The musical idea
- 2. Real sequence and developing variation
- 3. "Musical prose" and "endless melody"
- 4. "Expanded" and "wandering" tonality
- 5. The "individualization" of harmony
- 6. Conclusion
- Nationalism and Music
- 1. The "Volksgeist" hypothesis
- 2. Nationalism and folk music
- 3. On the aesthetics of national expression in music
- Appendix
- Friedrich Nietzsche, "On Music and Words"
- translated by Walter Kaufmann 103
- Index
Awards and reviews
Music and Letters
but the familiar terrain is surveyed as if for the first time, and every turn reveals original perspectives
