Song loves the masses : Herder on music and nationalism
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Song loves the masses : Herder on music and nationalism
University of California Press, c2017
- : pbk
- : cloth
Available at 3 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Distinguished ethnomusicologist Philip V. Bohlman compiles Johann Gottfried Herder's writings on music and nationalism, from his early volumes of Volkslieder through sacred song to the essays on aesthetics late in his life, shaping them as the book on music that Herder would have written had he gathered the many strands of his musical thought into a single publication. Framed by analytical chapters and extensive introductions to each translation, this book interprets Herder's musings on music to think through several major questions: What meaning did religion and religious thought have for Herder? Why do the nation and nationalism acquire musical dimensions at the confluence of aesthetics and religious thought? How did his aesthetic and musical thought come to transform the way Herder understood music and nationalism and their presence in global history? Bohlman uses the mode of translation to explore Herder's own interpretive practice as a translator of languages and cultures, providing today's readers with an elegantly narrated and exceptionally curated collection of essays on music by two major intellectuals.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Note on the Text
Note on Translation and Commentary
Prologue: Again, Herder
PART I. THE ONTOLOGY PROJECT
1. Folk Song at the Beginnings of National History: Essay on Alte Volkslieder (1774)
Translation from Alte Volkslieder / Ancient Folk Songs
2. The Folk Song Project at the Confluence of Music and Nationalism: Essay on Volkslieder (1778/79) and Stimmen der Voelker in Liedern (1807)
Translation from Volkslieder and Stimmen der Voelker in Liedern / Folk Songs and Voices of the People in Song
Appendix A: Introduction to the Folk Song Texts
Appendix B: Translation from the Folk Song Texts
3. Singing the Sacred Body: Essay on Lieder der Liebe (1778)
Translation from Lieder der Liebe: Die altesten und schoensten aus Morgenlande / Songs of Love: The Oldest and Most Beautiful from the Orient
PART II. THE HISTORY PROJECT
4. The Nation and Its Fragments: Essay on "Briefwechsel uber Ossian und die Lieder alter Voelker" (1773)
Translation from "Briefwechsel uber Ossian und die Lieder alter Voelker" / "Correspondence about Ossian and the Songs of Ancient Peoples"
5. Songs of the Enlightenment Bard: Essay on "Homer und Ossian" (1794)
Translation of "Homer und Ossian" / "Homer and Ossian" 6. Redemption through Sacred Song: Essay on Letter 46, Theologische Schriften (1780/81)
Translation of Letter 46, Theologische Schriften / Theological Writings
PART III. THE NATION PROJECT
7. The Shores of Modernity: Essay on "Wirkung der Dichtkunst auf die Sitten neuerer Zeiten" (1777)
Translation from "Wirkung der Dichtkunst auf die Sitten neuerer Zeiten" / "The Influence of Poetry on the Customs of Modernity"
8. The Epic as Nation: Essay on Herder's Der Cid Translation from Der Cid / The Cid
9. Music Transcendent and Sublime: Herder's "Von Music" (1800)
Translation of "Von Musik" / "On Music"
Epilogue: Herder's Journey
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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