Music and Aesthetics in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
- Author: Day, James
- Author: Huray, Peter le
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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
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