The Aesthetic Legacy of Eduard Hanslick

Close Readings and Critical Perspectives
Herausgeber: Rothfarb, Lee; Landerer, Christoph; Wilfing, Alexander

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Produktbeschreibung

This book addresses the complex conceptual, historical, and philosophical questions posed by Eduard Hanslick's influential aesthetic treatise, On the Musically Beautiful (1854). The contributions reveal the philosophical foundations and subtleties of his aesthetic approach.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 621g
• ISBN-13: 9780367856137
• ISBN-10: 0367856131
• Artikelnr.: 71230215

Autorenporträt

Lee Rothfarb taught at the University of Michigan, Tulane, Harvard, and UC Santa Barbara. He originated Music Theory Online and was voted a Lifetime Member of the SMT. Publications include two monographs (Ernst Kurth, August Halm), translations from Kurth's works, and a co-translation of Eduard Hanslick's Vom Musikalisch-Schönen. Alexander Wilfing is principal investigator of the project "Eduard Hanslick's Criticism between Aesthetics, Journalism, and Scholarship" at the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage in Vienna. Publications on Hanslick include his monograph Re-Reading Hanslick's Aesthetics (2019) and the edited volume Hanslick im Kontext / Hanslick in Context (2020). Christoph Landerer is a research associate at the Paris Lodron University Salzburg. He was principal investigator of several projects exploring On the Musically Beautiful. Publications include his monograph Eduard Hanslick und Bernard Bolzano (2004), and the edited volumes Eduard Hanslick zum Gedenken (2010) and Hanslick im Kontext / Hanslick in Context (2020).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Part 1: History of and in On the Musically Beautiful 1. Dynamizing
On the Musically Beautiful: The Development of Hanslick's Aesthetic Ideas
across Chapters and Editions Christoph Landerer and Alexander Wilfing 2.
Hanslick's Concept(s) of Beauty in Relation to History Alexander Wilfing
Part 2: Form 3. Hanslick on the Purposiveness of Musical Form Hanne
Appelqvist 4. Taking Hanslick at His Music-Theoretical Word Lee Rothfarb
Part 3: Emotion 5. Music, Feeling, and Musical Listening: Themes from
Chapters 4 and 5 of On the Musically Beautiful Nick Zangwill and Alexander
Wilfing 6. Hanslick's Emotional Legacy Lawrence M. Zbikowski Part 4:
Imagination and Performance 7. Hanslick's Theory of Musical Imagination
Theodore Gracyk 8. A Problematic Legacy: Hanslick's On the Musically
Beautiful and the Status of Performance as Supplementary to Beauty Anthony
Pryer Part 5: Contemporary Reception 9. Robert Zimmermann's 1854 Review of
On the Musically Beautiful: A Translation and Commentary Mark Evan Bonds
10. Challenges to the "Musically Beautiful": Music Drama and the
"Psychological Turn" in Later Nineteenth-Century Aesthetics Thomas S. Grey
List of Abbreviations Collective Bibliography