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Treats Nietzsche's youthful analysis of the contradictions in Wagner's doctrine; the question of periodicization in romantic and neo-romantic music; the underlying kinship between Brahms' and Wagner's responses to the central musical problems of their time; and, the true significance of musical nationalism.

Table of Contents
"Neo-romanticism"
The Twofold Truth in Wagner's Aesthetics:Nietzsche's Fragment "On Music and Words"
Issues in Composition
(translated in collaboration with Arnold Whittall)
1. The musical idea
2. Real sequence and developing variation
3. "Musical prose" and "endless melody"
4. "Expanded" and "wandering" tonality
5. The "individualization" of harmony
6. Conclusion
Nationalism and Music
1. The "Volksgeist" hypothesis
2. Nationalism and folk music
3. On the aesthetics of national expression in music
Appendix
Friedrich Nietzsche, "On Music and Words"
translated by Walter Kaufmann 103
Index

Between Romanticism and Modernism

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      Publisher University of California Press
      Published 12 October 1989
      ISBN-13 9780520067486
      978-0520067486
      ISBN-10 0520067487
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      Art music, orchestral and formal music

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Treats Nietzsche's youthful analysis of the contradictions in Wagner's doctrine; the question of periodicization in romantic and neo-romantic music; the underlying kinship between Brahms' and Wagner's responses to the central musical problems of their time; and, the true significance of musical nationalism.

      Table of Contents
      "Neo-romanticism"
      The Twofold Truth in Wagner's Aesthetics:Nietzsche's Fragment "On Music and Words"
      Issues in Composition
      (translated in collaboration with Arnold Whittall)
      1. The musical idea
      2. Real sequence and developing variation
      3. "Musical prose" and "endless melody"
      4. "Expanded" and "wandering" tonality
      5. The "individualization" of harmony
      6. Conclusion
      Nationalism and Music
      1. The "Volksgeist" hypothesis
      2. Nationalism and folk music
      3. On the aesthetics of national expression in music
      Appendix
      Friedrich Nietzsche, "On Music and Words"
      translated by Walter Kaufmann 103
      Index

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