The Invention of 'Folk Music' and 'Art Music'
Emerging Categories from Ossian to Wagner
- Author: Gelbart, Matthew
Book
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Contents
- Introduction;
- 1. Function to origin: national identity and national genius emerge, c.1700-80;
- 2. From pastoral to picturesque: nature, art, and genre in the later eighteenth century;
- 3. Genius versus Art in the creative process: 'national' and 'cultivated' music as categories, 1760-1800;
- 4. The invention of folk modality, 1775-1840;
- 5. 'Folk' and 'tradition': authenticity as musical idiom from the late eighteenth century onward;
- 6. Organic 'art music' and individual original genius: aestheticizing the folk collective;
- 7. Local nation and universal folk: the legacy of geography in musical categories;
- 8. Folk and art music in the modern western world.