Music and Literature in German Romanticism

SIOBHÁN DONOVAN is Lecturer in German Studies at University College Dublin. DAVID HILL is Professor emeritus, University of Birmingham (UK). NATASHA LOGES is Professor of Musicology at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. She was previously Head of Postgraduate Programmes at the Royal College of Music, London.

• Iniquitous Innocence: The Ambiguity of Music in the Phantasien über die Kunst (1799) - Richard LittlejohnsThe Cosmic-Symphonic: Novalis, Music, and Universal Discourse - "Das Hören ist ein Sehen von und durch innen": Johann Wilhelm Ritter and the Aesthetics of Music - Thomas StraessleMusic and Non-Verbal Reason in E. T. A. Hoffmann - Jeanne RiouPerceptions of Goethe and Schubert - Lorraine ByrneGoethe's Egmont, Beethoven's Egmont - David HillA Tale of Two Fausts: An Examination of Reciprocal Influence in the Responses of Liszt and Wagner to Goethe's FaustFaust - David LarkinMusical Gypsies and Anti-Classical Aesthetics: The Romantic Reception of Goethe's Mignon Character in Brentano's Die mehrenen Wehmüller und ungarische GeschichterDie mehrenen Wehmüller und ungarische Geschichter - Stefanie BachStages of Imagination in Music and Literature: E. T. A. Hoffmann and Hector Berlioz - Andrea HuebenerThe Voice from the Hereafter: E. T. A. Hoffmann's Ideal of Sound and Its Realization in Early Twentieth-Century Electronic MusicElectronic Music - Werner Keil"My song the midnight raven has outwing'd": Schubert's "Der Wanderer," D. 649 - James ParsonsThe Notion of Personae in Brahm's "Bitteres zu sagen denkst du": op. 32, no. 7: A literary key to musical performance? - Natasha LogesRobert Schneider's Schlafes Bruder -- a Neo-Romantic Musikernovelle? - Juergen Barkhoff

[...] the conviction of music's ability to convey meaning, rather than to imitate or represent an external phenomenon as was generally accepted during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, lies at the heart of German Romantic aesthetics. This theme forms the central subject of discourse in Music and Literature in German Romanticism.... This book makes an important contribution presenting current approaches from diverse perspectives related to a unified theme.