Poetry and the romantic musical aesthetic / James H. Donelan.

James H. Donelan describes how two poets, a philosopher, and a composer - Holderlin, Wordsworth, Hegel, and Beethoven - developed an idea of self-consciousness based on music at the turn of the nineteenth century. This idea became an enduring cultural belief: the understanding of music as an ideal r...

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Main Author: Donelan, James H., 1963-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
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Table of Contents:
  • Self-consciousness and music in the late Enlightenment. Kant, self-consciousness, and aesthetics. Fichte, Schiller, Schelling, and the Systemprogramm fragment : the origins of Romantic self-consciousness. Mozart and the transformation of Enlightenment musical aesthetics. The beginning of Romantic musical self-consciousness
  • Hölderlin's Deutscher Gesang and the music of poetic self-consciousness. "Urtheil und Seyn" : existence in poetry. "Wechsel der Töne" : the music of poetic language. Divine self-positing : "Dichterberuf " and the first letter to Böhlendorff. "Brod und Wein," "Patmos," and "Wie wenn am Feiertage" : the divine origin of Deutscher Gesang
  • Hegel's aesthetic theory : self-consciousness and musical material. Hegel's aesthetic lectures : origin and context. Hegelian self-consciousness and art. Music and the Hegelian forms of art. Music and Subjectivity. The problem of absolute music. Poetry and music
  • Nature, music, and the imagination in Wordsworth's poetry. Song and articulate meaning : "The solitary reaper". Natural music in The prelude. Text, voice, and imagination : "The dream of the Arab". Natural sound and childhood death : "The boy of Winander". Textual silence : "The blind beggar". Conclusion : "On the Power of Sound" and The Prelude
  • Beethoven and musical self-consciousness. Beethoven's intellectual life. The Heroic style (1803-12) . The Late style (1813-27) . Opus 130/133, string quartet No. 13 in Bb: first movement. String quartet no. 13 : middle movements. String quartet no. 13 : Große Fuge and Finale. Reception of the late quartets. Conclusion : the meaning of a quartet
  • The persistence of sound.