Music and Aesthetics in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

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Preface to the abridged edition
Preface to the first edition
Introduction
Reflexions critiques sur la poesie et sur la peinture (1719) Du Bos
An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (1725) Hutcheson
Three Treatises (1744) Harris
Les beaux-arts reduits a un meme principe (1746) Batteux
'Discours preliminaire' from the Encyclopedie (1751) d'Alembert
An Essay on Musical Expression (1753) Avison
'Genie', from the Encyclopidie (1757) de Jaucourt
'Le Gout, from the Encyclopedie (1757) Voltaire
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful (1757) Burke
Essai sur l'origine des langues (1764) Rousseau
Sensibilite', `Le Sublime', from the Encyclopedie (1765) de Jaucourt
'Le Genie', `L'Imitation' (with Framery's commentary), `Le Natural', `Le Gout', `L'Unite de melodie', from the Dictionnaire de musique (1767) Rousseau
'Aesthetik', `Leidenschaften', `Ausdruck in der Musik', `Genie', Begeisterung', `Musik', `Naturlich', `Erhaben', from the Allgemeine Theorie der schonen Kunste (1771) Sulzer
`Lettre ... sur la musique, from (1773) Gluck
`Preliminary Discourse' from A General History of the Science and Practice of Music (1776) Hawkins
Entretiens sur l'etat de la musique grecque au quatrieme siecle (1777) Barthelemy
La poetique de la musique (1785) La Cepede
`Versuch einer Vereinigung alley schonen Kunste', from Berlinische Monatsschrift (1785) Moritz
Discourse xiii (1786) Reynolds
`Essay on Musical Criticism', from A General History of Music (vol. 3) (1789) Burney
Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste (1790) Alison
Kritik der Urteilskraft (1790) Kant
System der Aesthetik (1790) Heydenreich
`Ueber Charakterdarstellung in der Musik', from Die Horen (1795) Korner
Essay sur la propagation de la musique en France (1796) Leclerc
From the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung (1813), Kalligone (1800) Herder
Vorlesungen fiber schone Literatur und Kunst (1801), Vorlesungen fiber dramatische Kunst und Literatur (1808) Schlegel, A. W.
`The intangibility of music'
'Musical beauty - form and content'
'The beautiful and the sublime in music'
'Humour in music', from the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung (1805-7) and the Berlinische musikalische Zeitung (1805) Michaelis
`Le Beau', `Classique', `Romanesque', `Le Sublime' from the Dictionnaire des beaux-arts (1806) Millin
`Of classic and romantic poetry' de Stael
Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung (1819) Schopenhauer
`Music and the other arts'
'Musical interpretation of content'
'The effect of music'
'Form, technique and content in music'
'The relationship between the musical means of expression and their content'
`Lyric and dramatic music'
'Independent music', from Aesthetik Hegel
`Du romantique', from Le Globe (1825) Anon
Ueber Reinheit der Tonkunst (1825) Thibaut
'Bello', `Espressione', `Imitazione', `Romantico', `Sublime', `Unita', `Estetica' Lichtenthal
'Reponse a fine question qui noun a ete faite par nos abonnes'
'Revue des journaux de musique publiees daps les divers pays de I'Europe', from the Revue musicale (1827) Fetis
L'Histoire du romantisme (1829) Toreinx
'Le romantisme en musique', from the Revue musicale (1830) E.F.
Substance of Several Courses of Lectures (1831) Crotch
'Sur les dictionnaires de musique'
'Polemique. Du mouvement et de la resistance en musique', from the Revue musicale (1831) Fetis
Kurze Encyclopddie der Philosophic (1831) Herbart
'The importance of the imagination'
'Emotion'
`The nature of the composer's inspiration'
'That music is more precise than words'
Musical progress' (1831-46) Mendelsohn
'Schonheit und Schon', `Begeisterung', `Romantik und Romantisch', `Erhaben' from the Universal Lexicon der Tonkunst (1834-8) Schilling
Filosofia della Musica (1836) Mazzini
'Ideen fiber Baukunst und Musik', from Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik (1838) Becker
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