Table of Contents
Introduction: Jost Hermand
CHRISTIAN GOTTLIEB LUDWIG
From An Attempt to Prove That a Musical Play or Opera Cannot Be Good (1734)
Translated by Michael Gilbert
KARL WILHELM RAMLER
In Defense of the Operas (1756)
Translated by Michael Gilbert
CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH DANIEL SCHUBART
Concerning Musical Genius (1784)
Translated by Richard W. Harpster
Concerning Musical Expression (1784)
Translated by Ted Alan DuBois
IMMANUEL KANT
The Division of the Fine Arts (1790)
Translated by James Creed Meredith
JOHANN GEORG SULZER
Expression in Music (1792-1794)
Music (1794)
Translated by Peter Le Huray and James Day
WILHELM HEINRICH WACKENRODER
The Marvels of the Musical Art (1799)
Translated by Mary Hurst Schubert
JOHANN GOTTFRIED HERDER
Music, an Art of Humanity (1802)
Translated by Edward A. Lippman
JOHANN NICKOLAUS FORKEL
Bach the Composer (1802)
The Genius of Bach (1802)
Translated by Charles Sanford Terry
E.T.A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) HOFFMANN
Beethoven's Instrumental Music (1813)
Translated by Oliver Strunk
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
From The World as Will and Representation (1819)
Translated by Peter Le Huray and James Day
GEORG FRIEDRICH WILHELM HEGEL
From The Aesthetics (1835)
Translated by Peter Le Huray and James Day
BETTINA VON ARNIM
Beethoven (1832)
Translated by Michael Gilbert
EDUARD HANSLICK
"Content" and "Form" in Music (1854)
Translated by Geoffrey Payzant
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
From Richard Wagner in Bayreuth (1876)
Translated by Michael Gilbert
The Case of Wagner (1888)
Translated by Walter Kaufmann
FRIEDRICH VON HAUSEGGER
A Popular Discussion of Music as Expression (c. 1885)
Translated by Michael Gilbert
THOMAS MANN
Coming to Terms with Richard Wagner (1913)
Translated by Allan Blunden
Hans Pfitzner's Palestrina (1918)
Translated by Walter D. Morris
AUGUST HALM
On Fugal Form, Its Nature, and Its Relation to Sonata Form (1913)
Translated by Edward A. Lippman
HANS BREUER
The Wandervogel Movement and Folk Song (1919)
Translated by Michael Gilbert
MAX WEBER
Technical, Economic, and Social Interrelations between Modern Music and Its Instruments (1921)
Translated by Don Martindale, Johannes Riedel, and Gertrude Neuwirth
H.H. STUCKENSCHMIDT
The Mechanization of Music (1925)
The Ivory Tower (1955)
Translated by Michael Gilbert
WILHELM FURTWÄNGLER
Problems of Conducting (1929)
Translated by Michael Gilbert
PETER SUHRKAMP
Music in the Schools (1930)
Translated by Michael Gilbert
ARNOLD SCHERING
Music and Society (1931)
Translated by Michael Gilbert
HEINRICH SCHENKER
Introduction to the First Edition of Free Composition (1935)
Translated by Ernst Oster
BERTOLT BRECHT
On the Use of Music in an Epic Theater (1935)
Translated by John Willett
ERNST BLOCH
Human Expression as Inseparable from Music (1955)
Translated by Peter Palmer
BRUNO WALTER
Thoughts on the Essential Nature of Music (1957)
Translated by Paul Hamburger
THEODOR W. ADORNO
Classes and Strata (1962)
Translated by E.B. Ashton
GEORG KNEPLER
Music Historiography in Eastern Europe (1972)
Translated by Barry S. Brooks et al.
DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU
The Composer (c. 1978)
Translated by Kenneth S. Whitton
CARL DAHLHAUS
Absolute Music as an Aesthetic Paradigm (1978)
Translated by Roger Lustig
GÜNTER MAYER
From On the Relationship of the Political and Musical Avant-garde (1989)
Translated by Michael Gilbert
JOST HERMAND
Avant-garde, Modern, Postmodern: The Music (Almost) Nobody Wants to Hear (1991)
Translated by James Keller
The Authors
