Aesthetics and the Art of Musical Composition in the German Enlightenment: Selected Writings of Johann Georg Sulzer and Heinrich Christoph Koch
(Part of the Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and Analysis Series)
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521035090
ISBN13:9780521035095
Release Date:December 2006
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:224 Pages
Weight:0.74 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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