The Invention of 'Folk Music' and 'Art Music' : Emerging Categories from Ossian to Wagner (Paperback)

Introduction; 1. Function to origin: national identity and national genius emerge, c.1700?80; 2. From pastoral to picturesque: nature, art, and genre in the later eighteenth century; 3. Genius versus Art in the creative process: 'national' and 'cultivated' music as categories, 1760?1800; 4. The invention of folk modality, 1775?1840; 5. 'Folk' and 'tradition': authenticity as musical idiom from the late eighteenth century onward; 6. Organic 'art music' and individual original genius: aestheticizing the folk collective; 7. Local nation and universal folk: the legacy of geography in musical categories; 8. Folk and art music in the modern western world.