Hanslick on the Musically Beautiful

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About this Book
The sixteen lectures by Geoffrey Payzant in this volume are all about one little book by Eduard Hanslick, Vom Musikalisch-Schönen - On the Musically Beautiful. Published at Prague in 1854 and a mere 104 pages, VMS ran to ten German editions and many translations in Hanslicks lifetime (he died in 1904). One may agree or disagree with its arguments and conclusions, but there is no denying that musical aesthetics as we know it has been given shape and direction by this small classic.
Payzant's lectures examine aspects of the Hanslick debate which have been given less attention than they deserve. In particular, they offer a fresh look at Hanslicks use of the German words Ton (tone)
and G^Ä/(feeling).
About the Author
Throughout his career Geoffrey Payzant has combined music and philosophy. His teachers of music were Harry Dean, Greta Kraus and George Little; he had his philosophical training at the University of Toronto. Not surprisingly, his academic specialty is... Tovább

Fülszöveg

About this Book
The sixteen lectures by Geoffrey Payzant in this volume are all about one little book by Eduard Hanslick, Vom Musikalisch-Schönen - On the Musically Beautiful. Published at Prague in 1854 and a mere 104 pages, VMS ran to ten German editions and many translations in Hanslicks lifetime (he died in 1904). One may agree or disagree with its arguments and conclusions, but there is no denying that musical aesthetics as we know it has been given shape and direction by this small classic.
Payzant's lectures examine aspects of the Hanslick debate which have been given less attention than they deserve. In particular, they offer a fresh look at Hanslicks use of the German words Ton (tone)
and G^Ä/(feeling).
About the Author
Throughout his career Geoffrey Payzant has combined music and philosophy. His teachers of music were Harry Dean, Greta Kraus and George Little; he had his philosophical training at the University of Toronto. Not surprisingly, his academic specialty is philosophical aesthetics of music, which subject he taught in the Department of Philosophy from 1957 to 1985 at the same university, where he is now an emeritus professor of philosophy. His publications include Glenn Gould, Music and Mind (1978); an English translation of Hanslicks VMS (1986); and Eduard Hanslick andRitter Berlioz in Prague (1991).
Cover: Eduard Hanslick in his 68th year Vissza