Music & aesthetics · English

What Can Music Say?

Eduard Hanslick · Leo Tolstoy

Hanslick: Gustav Cohen · Tolstoy: Aylmer Maude

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One symphony, two judgments

Hanslick and Tolstoy both find difficulties in Beethoven’s Ninth. Read the passages together and examine the different things each critic asks music to do.

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The Beautiful in Music, Gustav Cohen’s translation of the seventh German edition in the 1891-dated scan witness; What Is Art?, Aylmer Maude’s 1904 witness. Historical notation and full source apparatus accompany the texts.

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