Aesthetics and the Art of Musical Composition in the German Enlightenment ：Selected Writings of Johann Georg Sulzer and Heinrich Christoph Koch ( Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and Analysis )

Publication subTitle ：Selected Writings of Johann Georg Sulzer and Heinrich Christoph Koch

Publication series ：Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and Analysis

Author： Heinrich Christoph Koch; Johann Georg Sulzer; Nancy Baker  

Publisher： Cambridge University Press‎

Publication year： 1996

E-ISBN: 9780511829567

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780521360357

Subject： J60 music theory

Keyword： 音乐理论

Language： ENG

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Aesthetics and the Art of Musical Composition in the German Enlightenment

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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.

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Foreword by Ian Bent page

PART I: JOHANN GEORG SULZER GENERAL THEORY OF THE FINE ARTS (1771-74): SELECTED ARTICLES, translated and edited by Thomas Christensen

Introduction by Thomas Christensen

I Aesthetic foundations

1 Aesthetic

2 Sentiment

3 Inspiration

4 Originality

5 Order

6 Relation

7 Unity

8 Variety

9 Taste

10 Musical expression

II The creative process

1 Invention

2 Sketch

3 Layout

4 Form

5 Plan

6 Disposition

7 Elaboration

III Musical issues

1 Music

2 Composition

3 Painting in music

4 Tone painting

5 Melody

6 Song

7 Instrumental music

8 Harmony

9 Main theme

10 Sonata

11 Symphony

PART II: HEINRICH CHRISTOPH KOCH INTRODUCTORY ESSAY ON COMPOSITION, VOL. II (1787), translated and edited by Nancy Kovaleff Baker

Introduction by Nancy Kovaleff Baker

Preface

Introduction

I The aim and the inner nature of compositions and, above all, the way in which they arise

[Music and feeling]

[The primary matter of music; melody and harmony]

[The order of composing]

[The plan: 1. The mechanical elements]

[The plan: 2. The skills of melodic and harmonic invention]

[The plan: 3. The spiritual condition of the composer]

[The realization: 1. The mechanical elements]

[The realization: 2. The spiritual effect of modulation and form]

[The elaboration]

[The completed composition]

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