Music and Aesthetics in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

Contents

• Preface to the abridged edition
• Preface to the first edition
• Introduction
• Reflexions critiques sur la poesie et sur la peinture (1719) Du Bos
• An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (1725) Hutcheson
• Three Treatises (1744) Harris
• Les beaux-arts reduits a un meme principe (1746) Batteux
• 'Discours preliminaire' from the Encyclopedie (1751) d'Alembert
• An Essay on Musical Expression (1753) Avison
• 'Genie', from the Encyclopidie (1757) de Jaucourt
• 'Le Gout, from the Encyclopedie (1757) Voltaire
• A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful (1757) Burke
• Essai sur l'origine des langues (1764) Rousseau
• Sensibilite', `Le Sublime', from the Encyclopedie (1765) de Jaucourt
• 'Le Genie', `L'Imitation' (with Framery's commentary), `Le Natural', `Le Gout', `L'Unite de melodie', from the Dictionnaire de musique (1767) Rousseau
• 'Aesthetik', `Leidenschaften', `Ausdruck in der Musik', `Genie', Begeisterung', `Musik', `Naturlich', `Erhaben', from the Allgemeine Theorie der schonen Kunste (1771) Sulzer
• `Lettre ... sur la musique, from (1773) Gluck
• `Preliminary Discourse' from A General History of the Science and Practice of Music (1776) Hawkins
• Entretiens sur l'etat de la musique grecque au quatrieme siecle (1777) Barthelemy
• La poetique de la musique (1785) La Cepede
• `Versuch einer Vereinigung alley schonen Kunste', from Berlinische Monatsschrift (1785) Moritz
• Discourse xiii (1786) Reynolds
• `Essay on Musical Criticism', from A General History of Music (vol. 3) (1789) Burney
• Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste (1790) Alison
• Kritik der Urteilskraft (1790) Kant
• System der Aesthetik (1790) Heydenreich
• `Ueber Charakterdarstellung in der Musik', from Die Horen (1795) Korner
• Essay sur la propagation de la musique en France (1796) Leclerc
• From the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung (1813), Kalligone (1800) Herder
• Vorlesungen fiber schone Literatur und Kunst (1801), Vorlesungen fiber dramatische Kunst und Literatur (1808) Schlegel, A. W.
• `The intangibility of music'
• 'Musical beauty - form and content'
• 'The beautiful and the sublime in music'
• 'Humour in music', from the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung (1805-7) and the Berlinische musikalische Zeitung (1805) Michaelis
• `Le Beau', `Classique', `Romanesque', `Le Sublime' from the Dictionnaire des beaux-arts (1806) Millin
• `Of classic and romantic poetry' de Stael
• Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung (1819) Schopenhauer
• `Music and the other arts'
• 'Musical interpretation of content'
• 'The effect of music'
• 'Form, technique and content in music'
• 'The relationship between the musical means of expression and their content'
• `Lyric and dramatic music'
• 'Independent music', from Aesthetik Hegel
• `Du romantique', from Le Globe (1825) Anon
• Ueber Reinheit der Tonkunst (1825) Thibaut
• 'Bello', `Espressione', `Imitazione', `Romantico', `Sublime', `Unita', `Estetica' Lichtenthal
• 'Reponse a fine question qui noun a ete faite par nos abonnes'
• 'Revue des journaux de musique publiees daps les divers pays de I'Europe', from the Revue musicale (1827) Fetis
• L'Histoire du romantisme (1829) Toreinx
• 'Le romantisme en musique', from the Revue musicale (1830) E.F.
• Substance of Several Courses of Lectures (1831) Crotch
• 'Sur les dictionnaires de musique'
• 'Polemique. Du mouvement et de la resistance en musique', from the Revue musicale (1831) Fetis
• Kurze Encyclopddie der Philosophic (1831) Herbart
• 'The importance of the imagination'
• 'Emotion'
• `The nature of the composer's inspiration'
• 'That music is more precise than words'
• Musical progress' (1831-46) Mendelsohn
• 'Schonheit und Schon', `Begeisterung', `Romantik und Romantisch', `Erhaben' from the Universal Lexicon der Tonkunst (1834-8) Schilling
• Filosofia della Musica (1836) Mazzini
• 'Ideen fiber Baukunst und Musik', from Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik (1838) Becker
• L'e