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This book addresses the complex conceptual, historical, and philosophical questions posed by Eduard Hanslick's influential aesthetic treatise,
On the Musically Beautiful (1854). The contributions reveal the philosophical foundations and subtleties of his aesthetic approach.
List of contents
Preface
Part 1: History of and in On the Musically Beautiful 1. Dynamizing
On the Musically Beautiful: The Development of Hanslick's Aesthetic Ideas across Chapters and Editions
Christoph Landerer and Alexander Wilfing 2. Hanslick's Concept(s) of Beauty in Relation to History
Alexander Wilfing Part 2: Form 3. Hanslick on the Purposiveness of Musical Form
Hanne Appelqvist 4. Taking Hanslick at His Music-Theoretical Word
Lee Rothfarb Part 3: Emotion 5. Music, Feeling, and Musical Listening: Themes from Chapters 4 and 5 of
On the Musically Beautiful Nick Zangwill and Alexander Wilfing 6. Hanslick's Emotional Legacy
Lawrence M. Zbikowski Part 4: Imagination and Performance 7. Hanslick's Theory of Musical Imagination
Theodore Gracyk 8. A Problematic Legacy: Hanslick's
On the Musically Beautiful and the Status of Performance as Supplementary to Beauty
Anthony Pryer Part 5: Contemporary Reception 9. Robert Zimmermann's 1854 Review of
On the Musically Beautiful: A Translation and Commentary
Mark Evan Bonds 10. Challenges to the "Musically Beautiful": Music Drama and the "Psychological Turn" in Later Nineteenth-Century Aesthetics
Thomas S. Grey List of Abbreviations Collective Bibliography
About the author
Lee Rothfarb taught at the University of Michigan, Tulane, Harvard, and UC Santa Barbara. He originated
Music Theory Online and was voted a Lifetime Member of the SMT. Publications include two monographs (Ernst Kurth, August Halm), translations from Kurth's works, and a co-translation of Eduard Hanslick's
Vom Musikalisch-Schönen.
Alexander Wilfing is principal investigator of the project "Eduard Hanslick's Criticism between Aesthetics, Journalism, and Scholarship" at the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage in Vienna. Publications on Hanslick include his monograph
Re-Reading Hanslick's Aesthetics (2019) and the edited volume
Hanslick im Kontext / Hanslick in Context (2020).
Christoph Landerer is a research associate at the Paris Lodron University Salzburg. He was principal investigator of several projects exploring
On the Musically Beautiful. Publications include his monograph
Eduard Hanslick und Bernard Bolzano (2004), and the edited volumes
Eduard Hanslick zum Gedenken (2010) and
Hanslick im Kontext / Hanslick in Context (2020).
Summary
This book addresses the complex conceptual, historical, and philosophical questions posed by Eduard Hanslick’s influential aesthetic treatise, On the Musically Beautiful (1854). The contributions reveal the philosophical foundations and subtleties of his aesthetic approach.
