Aesthetics and the Art of Musical Composition in the German Enlightenment

Name: Aesthetics and the Art of Musical Composition in the German Enlightenment
SKU: 2463338
Price: 130.99 AUD
Availability: InStock

Selected Writings of Johann Georg Sulzer and Heinrich Christoph Koch

By:

Format:

Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Music Theory & Analysis

Show Hide Adult Content

$130.99

Available from supplier

Usually ships in 3-4 weeks

0 in Trolley

Price Match

Wrap this item as a gift ($5.90) - add a free gift card on the next page

Buy Now, Pay Later with:

4 payments of $32.75 with Afterpay Learn more

Availability

Delivering to:

Estimated arrival:

Around 31 May - 12 Jun using International Courier

Description

Can an abstract theory of Empfindsamkeit aesthetics have any value to a musician wishing to study composition in the classical style? The eighteenth-century German theorist and pedagogue Heinrich Koch showed how this question could be answered with a resounding yes. Starting with the systematic aesthetic theory of the Swiss encyclopedist Johann Sulzer, Koch was creatively able to adapt Sulzer's conservative ideas on ethical mimesis and rhetoric to concrete problems of music analysis and composition. In this collaborative study, Thomas Christensen and Nancy Baker have translated and analysed selected writings of Sulzer and Koch respectively, bringing to life a little-known confluence of philosophical and musical thought from the German Enlightenment. Koch's appropriation of Sulzer's ideas to the service of music represents an important development in the evolution of Western musical thought.

Release date Australia

December 14th, 2006

Author

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Contributors

Edited by Nancy Baker
Edited by Thomas Christensen

Illustrations

8 Printed music items; 1 Halftones, unspecified

Pages

224

Series

Cambridge Studies in Music Theory & Analysis

Dimensions

151x227x19

ISBN-13

9780521035095

Product ID

2463338

Customer reviews

Nobody has reviewed this product yet. You could be the first!

Write a Review

Marketplace listings

There are no Marketplace listings available for this product currently.
Already own it? Create a free listing and pay just 9% commission when it sells!

Sell Yours Here