Aesthetics and the Art of Musical Composition - In the German Enlightenment -Selected Writings of Johann Georg Sulzer and Heinrich Christoph Koch (Paperback, Revised)

Can an abstract theory of Empfindsamkeit aesthetics have any value to a musician wishing to study composition in the classical style? The eighteenth-century German theorist and pedagogue Heinrich Koch showed how this question could be answered with a resounding yes. Starting with the systematic aesthetic theory of the Swiss encyclopedist Johann Sulzer, Koch was creatively able to adapt Sulzer's conservative ideas on ethical mimesis and rhetoric to concrete problems of music analysis and composition. In this collaborative study, Thomas Christensen and Nancy Baker have translated and analysed selected writings of Sulzer and Koch respectively, bringing to life a little-known confluence of philosophical and musical thought from the German Enlightenment. Koch's appropriation of Sulzer's ideas to the service of music represents an important development in the evolution of Western musical thought.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2006
First published:	1995
Authors:	Heinrich Christoph Koch • Johann Georg Sulzer
Editors:	Nancy Baker • Thomas Christensen
Dimensions:	228 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	210
Edition:	Revised
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-03509-5
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General Books > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General
LSN:	0-521-03509-0
Barcode:	9780521035095

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