Rethinking Hanslick: Music, Formalism, and Expression (Eastman Studies in Music, 97) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1580465226 ISBN 13: 9781580465229

Publisher: University of Rochester Press, 2015

Synopsis

An innovative and incisive reassessment of a seminal figure in nineteenth-century musical life, through a fresh consideration of his aesthetic, critical, and autobiographical writings.


Rethinking Hanslick: Music, Formalism, and Expression is the first extensive English-language study devoted to Eduard Hanslick--a seminal figure in nineteenth-century musical life. Bringing together eminent scholars from several disciplines, this volume examines Hanslick's contribution to the aesthetics and philosophy of music and looks anew at his literary interests. The essays embrace ways of thinking about Hanslick's writings that go beyond the polarities that have long marked discussion of his work such as form/expression, absolute/program music, objectivity/subjectivity, and formalist/hermeneutic criticism. This approach takes into consideration both Hanslick's important On the Musically Beautiful and his critical and autobiographical writings, demonstrating Hanslick's rich insights into the context in which a musical work is composed, performed, and received.

Rethinking Hanslick serves as an invaluable companion to Hanslick's prodigious scholarship and criticism, deepening our understanding of the major themes and ideas of one of the most influential music critics of the nineteenth century.

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About the Authors

SIOBHÁN DONOVAN is Lecturer in German Studies at University College Dublin.

WOLFGANG MARX is Associate Professor of Historical Musicology at University College Dublin. He is co-editor with Louise Duchesneau, of György Ligeti. Of Foreign Lands and Strange Sounds (Boydell Press, 2011) and with Nicole Grimes and Siobhán Donovan (eds), Rethinking Hanslick. Music, Formalism, and Expression(URP, 2013).

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1580465226
• ISBN 13: 9781580465229
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 374
• Editor: Grimes Nicole, Donovan Professor Siobhán, Marx Wolfgang