Esthetics of music
1982, First Edition. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. Very good paperback copy; wrappers slightly edgeworn and dust-dulled, with prelims and text edges faintly foxed. Remains strong and well-preserved overall; internally strong and clean. Item #476815
ISBN: 0521280079
Physical description; xii, 115 pages ; 22 cm. Notes; Translated from the German by William W. Austin. Originally published in German as: Musikästhetik (Cologne : Musikverlag Hans Gerig, 1967). Includes bibliographical references (pages 101-112) and index. Contents; Historical starting-points – Music as text and work of art – Changing phases of the esthetics of emotion – Emancipation of instrumental music – Judgments of art and of taste – Genius, enthusiasm, technique – Affection and idea – Dialectics of 'sounding inwardness' – The quarrel over formalism – Program music – Tradition and reform in opera – Esthetics and history – Toward the phenomenology of music – Standards of criticism. Subjects; Music – Philosophy and aesthetics – 20th century. Aesthetics – 20th century.
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