German Music Criticism in the Late Eighteenth Century: Aesthetic Issues in Instrumental Music

Acknowledgements Author's note Introduction: terms of discourse 1. What does instrumental music mean? 2. Answering with a unified voice 3. Answering with a German voice 4. Answering with aesthetic criteria 5. The importance of being correct 6. The reign of genius 7. A call to order 8. Epilogue: segue to the nineteenth century Notes Bibliography Index.