Esthetics of Music

Contents

• Preface
• Translator's introduction
• 1. Historical starting-points
• 2. Music as text and work of art
• 3. Changing phases of the aesthetics of emotion
• 4. Emancipation of instrumental music
• 5. Judgements of art and of taste
• 6. Genius, enthusiasm, technique
• 7. Affection and idea
• 8. Dialectics of 'sounding inwardness'
• 9. The quarrel over formalism
• 10. Program music
• 11. Tradition and reform in opera
• 12. Estetics and history
• 13. Toward the phenomenology of music
• 14. Standards of criticism
• Bibliography
• Index.