Introduction: Jost HermandCHRISTIAN GOTTLIEB LUDWIGFrom An Attempt to Prove That a Musical Play or Opera Cannot Be Good (1734)Translated by Michael GilbertKARL WILHELM RAMLERIn Defense of the Operas (1756) Translated by Michael GilbertCHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH DANIEL SCHUBARTConcerning Musical Genius (1784)Translated by Richard W. HarpsterConcerning Musical Expression (1784)Translated by Ted Alan DuBoisIMMANUEL KANTThe Division of the Fine Arts (1790)Translated by James Creed MeredithJOHANN GEORG SULZERExpression in Music (1792-1794)Music (1794)Translated by Peter Le Huray and James DayWILHELM HEINRICH WACKENRODERThe Marvels of the Musical Art (1799)Translated by Mary Hurst SchubertJOHANN GOTTFRIED HERDERMusic, an Art of Humanity (1802)Translated by Edward A. LippmanJOHANN NICKOLAUS FORKELBach the Composer (1802)The Genius of Bach (1802)Translated by Charles Sanford TerryE.T.A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) HOFFMANNBeethoven's Instrumental Music (1813)Translated by Oliver StrunkARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERFrom The World as Will and Representation (1819)Translated by Peter Le Huray and James DayGEORG FRIEDRICH WILHELM HEGELFrom The Aesthetics (1835)Translated by Peter Le Huray and James DayBETTINA VON ARNIMBeethoven (1832)Translated by Michael GilbertEDUARD HANSLICK"Content" and "Form" in Music (1854)Translated by Geoffrey PayzantFRIEDRICH NIETZSCHEFrom Richard Wagner in Bayreuth (1876)Translated by Michael GilbertThe Case of Wagner (1888)Translated by Walter KaufmannFRIEDRICH VON HAUSEGGERA Popular Discussion of Music as Expression (c. 1885)Translated by Michael GilbertTHOMAS MANNComing to Terms with Richard Wagner (1913)Translated by Allan BlundenHans Pfitzner's Palestrina (1918)Translated by Walter D. MorrisAUGUST HALMOn Fugal Form, Its Nature, and Its Relation to Sonata Form (1913)Translated by Edward A. LippmanHANS BREUERThe Wandervogel Movement and Folk Song (1919)Translated by Michael GilbertMAX WEBERTechnical, Economic, and Social Interrelations between Modern Music and Its Instruments (1921)Translated by Don Martindale, Johannes Riedel, and Gertrude NeuwirthH.H. STUCKENSCHMIDTThe Mechanization of Music (1925)The Ivory Tower (1955)Translated by Michael GilbertWILHELM FURTWÄNGLERProblems of Conducting (1929)Translated by Michael GilbertPETER SUHRKAMPMusic in the Schools (1930)Translated by Michael GilbertARNOLD SCHERINGMusic and Society (1931)Translated by Michael GilbertHEINRICH SCHENKERIntroduction to the First Edition of Free Composition (1935)Translated by Ernst OsterBERTOLT BRECHTOn the Use of Music in an Epic Theater (1935)Translated by John WillettERNST BLOCHHuman Expression as Inseparable from Music (1955)Translated by Peter PalmerBRUNO WALTERThoughts on the Essential Nature of Music (1957)Translated by Paul HamburgerTHEODOR W. ADORNOClasses and Strata (1962)Translated by E.B. AshtonGEORG KNEPLERMusic Historiography in Eastern Europe (1972)Translated by Barry S. Brooks et al.DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAUThe Composer (c. 1978)Translated by Kenneth S. WhittonCARL DAHLHAUSAbsolute Music as an Aesthetic Paradigm (1978)Translated by Roger LustigGÜNTER MAYERFrom On the Relationship of the Political and Musical Avant-garde (1989)Translated by Michael GilbertJOST HERMANDAvant-garde, Modern, Postmodern: The Music (Almost) Nobody Wants to Hear (1991)Translated by James KellerThe Authors

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