Titus Recognizing Music as an Art Form

Friedrich Th. Vischer and German Music Criticism, 1848-1887
01. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-94-6166-194-4
Verlag: Leuven University Press
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 270 Seiten

The importance of F.T. Vischer on 19th-century music criticism Music’s status as an art form was distrusted in the context of German idealist philosophy which exerted an unparalleled influence on the entire nineteenth century. Hegel insisted that the content of a work of art should be grasped in concepts in order to establish its spiritual substantiality (Geistigkeit), and that no object, word or image could accurately represent the content and meaning of a musical work. In the mid-nineteenth century, Friedrich Theodor Vischer and other Hegelian aestheticians kept insisting on art's conceptual clarity, but they adapted the aesthetic system on which this requirement had been based. Their adaptations turned out to be decisive for the development of music criticism, to such an extent that music critics used them to point out musical content and to confirm music’s autonomy as an art form. This book unravels the network of music critics and philosophers, including not only Hegel but also Franz Liszt, Franz Brendel, and Eduard Hanslick, whose works shaped public opinions of music.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Titus, Barbara

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abbreviations Preface
Part I -The Hegemony of Idealist Philosophy Chapter one - Thinking about Art Chapter two - Thinking about Music
Part II - Between Subjectivity and ObjectivityChapter three - The Bird among the Arts Chapter four - The End of Art
Part III - Case StudiesChapter five - Musical Forms as 'Spiritualized Material': Repositioning Eduard Hanslick Chapter six - Programme Music: Franz Liszt's Negotiation of Hegelian AestheticsChapter seven - Furthering a 'New Form of Consciousness': Franz Brendel's Concept of a New German School Chapter eight - The Advance of Musical Scholarship
Epilogue - Deconceptualizing Music/ology Appendices Appendix I - Hegelian GlossaryAppendix II - Editions and TranslationsAppendix III - Manuscript SourcesAppendix IV - Music Criticism and Idealist DiscourseAppendix V - References to Vischer in Music Periodicals and Treatises
BibliographyTranslationsIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Titus, Barbara
Barbara Titus is associate professor of Musicology at the University of Amsterdam.