Aesthetics and the Art of Musical Composition in the German Enlightenment
Selected Writings of Johann Georg Sulzer and Heinrich Christoph Koch
- Author: Koch, Heinrich Christoph
- Author: Sulzer, Johann Georg
- Editor: Baker, Nancy
- Editor: Christensen, Thomas
the translations are elegant and thoughtfully done, with helpful annotations and there are useful introductory essays on Sulzer and Koch by the two editors ... the extracts translated provide... — More…
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Contents
- Foreword Ian Bent
- Part I. Johann Georg Sulzer: General Theory of the Fine Arts (1771-74): Selected Articles
- Introduction Thomas Christensen
- 1. Aesthetic foundations
- 2. The creative process
- 3. Musical issues
- Part II. Heinrich Christoph Koch: Introductory Essay on Composition, Vol. II (1787)
- Introduction Nancy Kovaleff Baker
- Preface
- Introduction
- 4. The aim and the inner nature of compositions and, above all, the way in which they arise
- Index.