John Sullivan Dwight (1813-93) was, for much of the nineteenth century, America's leading music critic and an important figure among New England Transcendentalists. This biography charts his relationships with other writers and thinkers, as well as his evolution into a powerful and persuasive writer, while situating his story in its nineteenth century and Transcendental contexts. Dwight's enormous body of essays, reviews, and translations are illuminated in this biography and reveal the indelible influence that his newspaper, Dwight's Journal of Music, had on music criticism--the impacts of which still resonate today.…mehr
John Sullivan Dwight (1813-93) was, for much of the nineteenth century, America's leading music critic and an important figure among New England Transcendentalists. This biography charts his relationships with other writers and thinkers, as well as his evolution into a powerful and persuasive writer, while situating his story in its nineteenth century and Transcendental contexts. Dwight's enormous body of essays, reviews, and translations are illuminated in this biography and reveal the indelible influence that his newspaper, Dwight's Journal of Music, had on music criticism--the impacts of which still resonate today.
Bill F. Faucett is the author of Music in Boston: Composers, Events, and Ideas, 1852-1918 and George Whitefield Chadwick: The Life and Music of The Pride of New England, among other volumes.
Inhaltsangabe
Acknowledgements Illustrations Introduction PART I: Musica sub rosa 1. A Lineage so Grandly Historic The Dwights of Massachusetts Irrepressible Fondness Dwight's Early Education Genius and Enterprise 2. Musical Awakenings Life at Harvard Musica sub rosa Harvard Divinity School 3. The World Idealized Ralph Waldo Emerson Gardiner's The Music of Nature (1832) Goethe, Schiller and Carlyle George Ripley Early Major Writings 4. Preaching, The Dial, and the HMA Northampton The Dial (1840-1844) The Harvard Musical Association PART II: The Music of Transcendentalism 5. Dwight at Brook Farm Gentleman Farmers The Arts at Brook Farm The Emerging Journalist 6. The Harbinger, Beethoven, and the End of Brook Farm The Harbinger Beethoven Storms Boston Dwight's Fourieristic Writings Gone Like a Dream 7. The Maturing Critic Back in Boston The Daily Chronotype Sartain's Magazine Graham's Magazine New Prospects PART III: The World at Arm's Length 8. Dwight's Journal of Music Founding the Journal Models and Influences Early Reception of the Journal Oliver Ditson 9. Years in Days Dwight's Grand Tour Music in Europe The Great Eastern 10. Dwight on the Issues Responses to the Civil War Dwight contra Enterprise Native Musicians Music of the Future Murmurs of a Grander Future Music Libraries in Boston 11. The End of Dwight's Journal of Music We Still Live Howling Wolves The Journal Folds CODA 12. The Last Transcendentalist Life After the Journal The Perkins Institution for the Blind Last writings The Last Transcendentalist Appendices 1. Dwight's Harvard Forensics and Themes Topics 2. Selected Original Poems by Dwight 3. Musical Repertoire and Guest Artists at Brook Farm 4. Selected Song Translations and Adaptations by Dwight 5. Dwight's Major Original Essays in the Journal (1852-1881) 6. Dwight's European "Editorial Correspondences" for the Journal (1860-1861) Abbreviations John Sullivan Dwight: A Selected Bibliography Selected Bibliography Index
Acknowledgements Illustrations Introduction PART I: Musica sub rosa 1. A Lineage so Grandly Historic The Dwights of Massachusetts Irrepressible Fondness Dwight's Early Education Genius and Enterprise 2. Musical Awakenings Life at Harvard Musica sub rosa Harvard Divinity School 3. The World Idealized Ralph Waldo Emerson Gardiner's The Music of Nature (1832) Goethe, Schiller and Carlyle George Ripley Early Major Writings 4. Preaching, The Dial, and the HMA Northampton The Dial (1840-1844) The Harvard Musical Association PART II: The Music of Transcendentalism 5. Dwight at Brook Farm Gentleman Farmers The Arts at Brook Farm The Emerging Journalist 6. The Harbinger, Beethoven, and the End of Brook Farm The Harbinger Beethoven Storms Boston Dwight's Fourieristic Writings Gone Like a Dream 7. The Maturing Critic Back in Boston The Daily Chronotype Sartain's Magazine Graham's Magazine New Prospects PART III: The World at Arm's Length 8. Dwight's Journal of Music Founding the Journal Models and Influences Early Reception of the Journal Oliver Ditson 9. Years in Days Dwight's Grand Tour Music in Europe The Great Eastern 10. Dwight on the Issues Responses to the Civil War Dwight contra Enterprise Native Musicians Music of the Future Murmurs of a Grander Future Music Libraries in Boston 11. The End of Dwight's Journal of Music We Still Live Howling Wolves The Journal Folds CODA 12. The Last Transcendentalist Life After the Journal The Perkins Institution for the Blind Last writings The Last Transcendentalist Appendices 1. Dwight's Harvard Forensics and Themes Topics 2. Selected Original Poems by Dwight 3. Musical Repertoire and Guest Artists at Brook Farm 4. Selected Song Translations and Adaptations by Dwight 5. Dwight's Major Original Essays in the Journal (1852-1881) 6. Dwight's European "Editorial Correspondences" for the Journal (1860-1861) Abbreviations John Sullivan Dwight: A Selected Bibliography Selected Bibliography Index
Es gelten unsere Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen: www.buecher.de/agb
Impressum
www.buecher.de ist ein Shop der buecher.de GmbH & Co. KG Bürgermeister-Wegele-Str. 12, 86167 Augsburg Amtsgericht Augsburg HRA 13309
