| Series |
American university studies. Series V, Philosophy ; vol. 26
American university studies. Series V, Philosophy ; vol. 26. ^A155203
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| Contents |
Issues in eighteenth-century musical thought. Four aesthetic issues of the early eighteenth century ; Eighteenth century ; Eighteenth-century writers on music: criteria for selection -- Seventeenth-century origins and eighteenth-century trends. The state of musicography ca. 1700 ; Joseph Addison and the rise of British journalism ; Christian Wolff and German rationalistic philosophy -- Cross-currents in early eighteenth-century musical thought. Writers on music in Britain. Joseph Addison. Addison and Germany -- Francis Hutcheson ; Alexander Malcolm ; Roger North. North and German musicians -- James Ralph ; Johann Christoph Pepusch ; Johann Friedrich Lampe -- Writers on music in Germany. Johann Mattheson: critic on music and society. Johann Mattheson and Britain ; Johann Mattheson in the 1720s ; Mattheson and Christian Wolff ; Mattheson and Alexander Malcolm ; Johann Mattheson in the 1730s -- Johann David Heinichen ; Ernst Gottlieb Baron ; Johann Adolph Scheibe ; Lorenz Christoph Mizler -- The affections: birth and death of a concept. An unsystematic system: ancient thought on the affections ; Attitudes toward the affections in the early eighteenth century ; Addison and Mattheson: views on the concept of the affections in the first two decades of the eighteenth century ; The concept of the affections in the 1720s ; The concept of the affections in the 1730s -- Music as an imitation of nature. Greek thought on imitation ; Eighteenth-century thought on imitation ; Mattheson's early attitudes toward imitation ; Imitation in the 1720s ; Imitation in the 1730s -- Musical taste, and tastes. Taste in Britain ; Taste in Germany ; National traits and discussions of taste ; Addison and Mattheson in the frist two decades of the eighteenth century ; Taste in the 1720s ; Taste in the 1730s -- Music and "imagination" in the age of reason. Theories of the imagination in France, Britain, and Germany ; The imagination and rhetoric ; Addison and Mattheson on imagination early in the first decades of the eighteenth century ; Imagination in the 1720s ; Imagination in the 1730s ; Mattheson, the imagination, and Milton -- Kircher and Milton: a German-British exchange of musical thought -- John Locke and Mattheson. |
| Abstract |
This book discusses important changes in attitudes toward music as seen in the writings of British and German philosophers, journalists, and musicians. Selecting four major aesthetic issues (the affections, imitation of nature, taste, and the imagination), Boomgaarden shows that the continuity of Eighteenth-Century musical thought defies any attempt to place the shift in musical style from Baroque to Classical at 1750--a shift which had actually begun long before. The study is a significant contribution to women's, religious, and art history. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-233) and index. |
| LCCN | 86027658 |
| ISBN | 0820403911 : |
