This is a landmark study that no one seriously interested in music and nineteenth-century European culture will be able to ignore.

An account of developments in the aesthetics of music from the mid-eighteenth century onwards.

This book is a collection of essays, by the leading German musicologist of our day, on one of the most controversial and influential composers of our century: Arnold Schoenberg.

Contains a concise . . . account of Wagner's life by John Deathridge and . . . a treatment of Wagner's music, aesthetics, and individual operas and music dramas by Carl Dahlhaus which is a tour de force.

In this volume, the late Carl Dahlhaus combines the interpretations of individual works with excursions into the musical aesthetics of the period around 1800, an age which was not only a `classical' period in the history of the arts but ...

"Essential reading for anyone interested in the larger intellectual framework in which Romantic music found its place, a framework that to a remarkable degree has continued to shape our image of music."—Robert P. Morgan, Yale University ...

Książka ta, może stać się lekturą obowiązkową dla studentów muzykologii, a także służyć jako lektura uzupełniająca na wydziałach humanistycznych, zwłaszcza dla studentów dyscyplin historycznych, filozoficznych, nauk o ...

... Carl Nielsen's songs have often been viewed as ` authentically Danish ” , both in Denmark and elsewhere . This ... Carl Dahlhaus makes use of this term in his discussion of music and nationalism . See Carl Dahlhaus , ' Nationalism ...

Source Readings in the Aesthetics of Music Ruth Katz, Carl Dahlhaus. FORM The discussion about " form " that was held at the Darmstädter Inter- nationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik confronted an ... Carl Dahlhaus György Ligeti Introduction.

Included in this volume is Walter Kauffman's translation of the previously unpublished fragment, "On Music and Words," by the young Nietzsche.