Music and Aesthetics in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries (Paperback)

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; L'e