The Romantic Tradition German Literature and Music in the Nineteenth Century

by Chapple, Gerald; Hall, Frederick; Schulte, Hans

• ISBN13: 9780819181657
• ISBN10: 081918165X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-10-28
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

Literature and Music in the Romantic Movementóthe twenty-four literary historians, musicologists, and philosophers who have contributed to this book have taken the conjunction "and" seriously. The eminently Romantic goal of unifying these two arts is scrutinized from several different angles in the attempt to break new critical ground both on aesthetic principles and in re-approaching some well-known works in "mixed genres" typical of the movement. Hans Schulte reminds us in his retrospect that what was a longed-for goal for the Romantics had once been a given, a fait accompli, to the ancient Greeks. But the book is not backward looking; on the contrary, it reveals both the aesthetic revolution at the beginning of the nineteenth century and its far reaching impact - as the title indicates - through the nineteenth and into the twentieth century. The editors from the "Preface". Co-published with McMaster University.

Table of Contents

Preface
Prologue: Sprache und Tonsprache / Language and Musical Language	p. 1
Romantic Aesthetics
Music as Norm for the Poetics of Romantic Art: Hegel and Holderlin	p. 25
Music on the Threshold of German Romanticism	p. 43
"Ein glanzend symphonischer Geist": Gottlieb Wilhelm Fink and the Romantic Symphony	p. 61
Hanslick, Heinse, and the "Moral" Response to Music	p. 79
Re-Uniting the Arts
Paradigmatische Musik: Wackenroders Joseph Berglinger als Vorlaufer von Thomas Manns Doktor Faustus	p. 95
Music in Goethe's Thought and Writing	p. 113
Work and Music: Schiller's "Reich des Klanges"	p. 133
Text-Sonate: Beobachtungen an Holderlins Hyperion	p. 165
Musikartige Strukturen in der Dichtung: Schlegels Lucinde	p. 181
Writing (about) Music: The Case of E.T.A. Hoffmann	p. 209
Hoffmann, Weber, Wagner: The Birth of Romantic Opera from the Spirit of Literature?	p. 227
Liszt, Goethe, and the "Faust" Symphony	p. 245
Faust in his Element: A Musical Career and its Consequences	p. 263
Texts and Settings
Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischutz: "Nummernoper" or "Gesamtkunstwerk"?	p. 281
"Der Lindenbaum": The Turning Point of Winterreise	p. 309
Text-Music Relations in Schumann's Eichendorff Song "Fruhlingsfahrt"	p. 333
Text and Music in Mahler's Kindertotenlieder	p. 359
Hugo Wolf's Ghazel Settings from Goethe's "Schenkenbuch"	p. 377
A Critique of Text-and-Music Research: The Case of Richard Strauss	p. 407
Wagner - And After
"Melting Dream": The Wagner Controversy in Munich, 1864-65	p. 423
Naming-Day in Nuremberg: Issues of Identity in Wagner's Die Meistersinger	p. 439
The Wagnerian Cycle	p. 459
Our Wagner - And Theirs	p. 479
Wagner and the Consequences: A Debate	p. 489
Retrospect: A Re-union of the Arts, and a Critical Dilemma	p. 515
About the Contributors	p. 523
Index	p. 527
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