Esthetics of Music

Abstract

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.