Romantic Music Aesthetics : Creating a Politics of Emotion / Matthew Pritchard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pritchard, Matthew (Musicologist), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romanticism in music.

Music--19th century--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Music.

Music--18th century--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 274 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press, [2024]

Summary:

Romantic music aesthetics has often been reduced to tired clichés of ineffable feeling and art for art's sake. This book instead explores the groundbreaking philosophical insights and radical politics that Romantic thinkers applied to music - both popular and classical - and the emotions it inspires

Contents:

Cover

Half-title page

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

List of Figures

List of Music Examples

Acknowledgements

Note on Translation

Introduction

Limits of the 'Material': Social Mediation, Emotions and the Imagination

Against Paradigms: Continuity and Social Identity in Sentimental-Romantic Aesthetics

Germaine de Staël, Progressive Romantic

Or, a Chapter Plan

1 Staging Sentimentality

From Passions to Sentiments: Cultivating 'Tenderness' in the Ancien Régime

The Treason of the Body: Sympathy and Sensibility in Early Eighteenth-Century Literature

Building the Fourth Wall: Absorption and the Tableau in Diderot and Rousseau

2 The Legacy of Rousseau

Liberty, Equality, Transparency: Musical Community in Rousseau

Interested Subjects: From the Impartial Spectator to the Birth of Public Opinion

Moving the Masses: The Technique and Politics of Sentimental Melodrama

(Anti-)female Sentiment and the 'Bad' Romance

3 The Composer as Genius

Genius, Sentimental Expression and the 'People'

The 'Enthusiasm' of Genius: From Prophetic Sects to the Werthervolk

Popularity and the Musical Sturm und Drang

4 Idealist Aesthetics and the Music Critic

'Being', Besonnenheit and Bildung: From Idealist Metaphysics to Romantic Criticism

Character and the 'Characteristic'

The Invention of Truth Content: Joseph d'Ortigue and Mennaisian Music Aesthetics

Criticism and Cultural Empathy, from Herder to Joseph Mainzer

5 Picturing the Musical Absolute

Music and the Romantic Metaphysics of the Absolute

Hoffmann and the Popular Romantic Aesthetics of Opera

Humour, the Highest Ideal of Romantic Instrumental Music

6 Between Idealism and Realism I: The French Socialists

Feeling from Right to Left: Chateaubriand's mal du siècle and the Saint-Simonian Solution

Béranger and the Popular Realist chanson

Theorising a Republican Romantic Socialism: Pierre Leroux and George Sand

Marrying Satan to the 'Good Goddess of Poverty': Musical Mythology in Sand's Consuelo

7 Between Idealism and Realism II: After Hegel

Hegelian Aesthetics: From the End of Art to the End of Romantic Instrumental Music

Feuerbach, Wagner and the Drama

Myths of the 'Purely Human'

The Gesamtkunstwerk as Aesthetic Illusion: From Bayreuth to Hollywood and Beyond

8 From Hanslick to the Twentieth Century

'Sins of My Youth': Hanslick and Music Criticism in Revolutionary Times

Hanslick the Herbartian: Austrian 'State Philosophy' and the Origins of Musicology

Musical 'Energetics' and the Vocabulary of Scientific Materialism

Conclusion: The Fate of Feeling

Affective Immanence and Intellectual Control, from Musicology to Psychology

Romantic Legacies, Romantic Hopes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Nov 2024).

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781009491631

1009491636

9781009491624

1009491628

9781009491679

1009491679