Music and Aesthetics in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries [Paperback]

This is an abridged, paperback edition of Peter le Huray and James Day's invaluable anthology of writings concerned with the role of music in eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century aesthetics.This is an abridged, paperback edition of Peter le Huray and James Day's invaluable anthology of writings concerned with the role of music in eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century aesthetics. This volume retains all the most important and significant items from the original hardcover edition.This is an abridged, paperback edition of Peter le Huray and James Day's invaluable anthology of writings concerned with the role of music in eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century aesthetics. This volume retains all the most important and significant items from the original hardcover edition.This is an abridged, paperback edition of Peter le Huray and James Day's invaluable anthology of writings concerned with the role of music in eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century aesthetics. This volume retains all the most important and significant items from the original hardcover edition. Over fifty writers are represented here, including such major figures as Rousseau, Kant, Schlegel, Schopenhauer and Hegel, and the useful introductions and biographical details of the original are also retained. The aesthetic literature of the period is profuse but this carefully edited volume offers a balanced selection which illuminates the ways people experienced music and how they came to an understanding in particular of the new music of their day.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 (1l3„