Rethinking Hanslick – Music, Formalism, and Expression: Eastman Studies in Music

Nicole Grimes, Siobhán Donovan, Wolfgang Marx

Introduction Negotiating the "Absolute": Hanslick's Path through Musical History Hanslick's Composers Hanslick, Legal Processes, and Scientific Methodologies: How Not to Construct an Ontology of Music Otakar Hostinský, the Musically Beautiful, and the Gesamtkunstwerk Hanslick on Johann Strauss Jr.: Genre, Social Class, and Liberalism in Vienna Waltzing around the Musically Beautiful: Listening and Dancing in Hanslick's Hierarchy of Musical Perception "Poison-Flaming Flowers from the Orient and Nightingales from Bayreuth": On Hanslick's Reception of the Music of Goldmark German Humanism, Liberalism, and Elegy in Hanslick's Writings on Brahms The Critic as Subject: Hanslick's Aus meinem Leben as a Reflection on Culture and Identity "Faust und Hamlet in Einer Person": The Musical Writings of Eduard Hanslick as Part of the Gender Discourse in the Late Nineteenth Century Body and Soul, Content and Form: On Hanslick's Use of the Organism Metaphor Hanslick and Hugo Wolf Battle Rejoined: Hanslick and the Symphonic Poem in the 1890s On "Jewishness" and Genre: Hanslick's Reception of Gustav Mahler Selected Bibliography List of Contributors Index