Eduard Hanslick's On the Musically Beautiful: A New Translation
- Author: Hanslick, Eduard
- Author: Landerer, Christoph
- Author: Rothfarb, Lee A.
The translators provide thorough scholarly apparatus plus extensive introductory material. ... The new translation seems to convey Hanslick's thought with utter clarity, and the accompanying... — More…
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Contents
- Translators' Preface
- Introductory Essays
- 1. Origins, Publication, and Translation History of the Treatise
- Christoph Landerer, Alexander Wilfing, Lee Rothfarb
- 2. Introduction to Hanslick's Central Concepts
- Christoph Landerer, Lee Rothfarb
- 3. Philosophical Background
- Christoph Landerer, Lee Rothfarb
- Readers' Guide: Alternative Routes Through the Treatise
- Lee Rothfarb, Christoph Landerer
- On the Musically Beautiful, 10th edition
- Preface
- Chapter 1, The Aesthetics of Feeling
- Chapter 2, The Representation of Feelings is not the Content of Music
- Chapter 3, The Musically Beautiful
- Chapter 4, Analysis of the Subjective Impression of Music
- Chapter 5, Aesthetic Compared to Pathological Perception of Music
- Chapter 6, The Relation of Music to Nature
- Chapter 7, The Concepts Content and Form in Music
- Appendix: Chapter 1, 1st edition (excerpt)
- Chapter 7, 1st edition, conclusion
- Contextualizing Commentary
- Selected Sources for Further Reading