The Arts in Mind: Pioneering Texts of a Coterie of British Men of LettersRuth Katz, Ruth HaCohen Transaction Publishers, 01.01.2003 - 431 Seiten Amajor shift in critical attitudes toward the arts took place in the eighteenth century. The fine arts were now looked upon as a group, divorced from the sciences and governed by their own rules. The century abounded with treatises that sought to establish the overriding principles that differentiate art from other walks of life as well as the principles that differentiate them from each other. This burst of scholarly activity resulted in the incorporation of aesthetics among the classic branches of philosophy, heralding the cognitive turn in epistemology. Among the writings that initiated this turn, none were more important than the British contribution. The Arts in Mind brings together an annotated selection of these key texts. A companion volume to the editors' Tuning the Mind, which analyzed this major shift in world view and its historical context, The Arts in Mind is the first representative sampling of what constitutes an important school of British thought. The texts are neither obscure nor forgotten, although most histories of eighteenth-century thought treat them in a partial or incomplete way. Here they are made available complete or through representative extracts together with an editor's introduction to each selection providing essential biographical and intellectual background. The treatises included are representative of the changed climate of opinion which entailed new issues such as those of perception, symbolic function, and the role of history and culture in shaping the world. Contents include: Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury, "Characteristics"; Francis Hutcheson, "Inquiry Concerning Beauty, Harmony and Design"; Hildebrand Jacob, "Of the Sister Arts: An Essay"; James Harris, "On Music, Painting and Poetry"; Charles Avison, "An Essay on Musical Expression"; James Beattie, "Essay on Poetry and Music as They Affect the Mind"; Daniel Webb, "Observations on the Correspondence between Poetry and Music"; Thomas Twining, "On Poetry Considered as an Imitative Art," "On the Different Senses of the Word Imitative as Applied to Music by the Ancients and by the Moderns"; Adam Smith, "Of the Nature of that Imitation which Takes Place in What are Called the Imaginative Arts." Ruth Katz is Emanuel Alexandre Professor of Musicology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She is co-editor with Carl Dahlhaus of Contemplating Music, a four-volume study of the philosophy of music. Ruth HaCohen is Clarica and Fred Davidson Senior Lecturer of Musicology at the Hebrew University. |
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... original treatises , though it is alluded to and sometimes discussed at length . Our writers obviously did not feel the need to supply the reader with pictorial and musical examples since they assumed that those who have taken the ...
... original treatises , though it is alluded to and sometimes discussed at length . Our writers obviously did not feel the need to supply the reader with pictorial and musical examples since they assumed that those who have taken the ...
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... original and pure Nature , nothing beside contrary Habit and Custom ( a second Nature ) is able to displace . And this Affection being an original one of ear- liest rise in the Soul or affectionate Part ; nothing beside contrary ...
... original and pure Nature , nothing beside contrary Habit and Custom ( a second Nature ) is able to displace . And this Affection being an original one of ear- liest rise in the Soul or affectionate Part ; nothing beside contrary ...
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... original creation , and thereby granting art an honorable place in man's rational existence . Characteristics was sent to Leibniz ( among others ) for criticism upon its appearance in 1711. Despite some criticism , Leibniz states ...
... original creation , and thereby granting art an honorable place in man's rational existence . Characteristics was sent to Leibniz ( among others ) for criticism upon its appearance in 1711. Despite some criticism , Leibniz states ...
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... original and comprehensive One ? Observe how the Case stands in all those other Subjects of Art or Science . What diffi- Arts . culty to be in any degree knowing ! How long ere a true Taste is gain'd ! How many things shocking , how ...
... original and comprehensive One ? Observe how the Case stands in all those other Subjects of Art or Science . What diffi- Arts . culty to be in any degree knowing ! How long ere a true Taste is gain'd ! How many things shocking , how ...
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... original living Forms of Flesh and Blood . And for the other , the dead Forms of Nature , the Metals and Stones , however precious and dazling ; I am resolved to resist their Splendour , and make abject Things of ' em , even in their ...
... original living Forms of Flesh and Blood . And for the other , the dead Forms of Nature , the Metals and Stones , however precious and dazling ; I am resolved to resist their Splendour , and make abject Things of ' em , even in their ...
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Hildebrand Jacob | 81 |
James Harris | 113 |
Charles Avison | 147 |
James Beattie | 183 |
Daniel Webb | 249 |
Thomas Twining | 323 |
Adam Smith | 367 |
Bibliography | 421 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
according action Æneid aesthetic agreeable Ancients appear argument Aristotle artistic Avison called character Charles Avison cognitive colour Composition concerning Condillac considered CONT degree distinct effect emotions Epic Poetry erwise essay example external fancy feelings Genius give Greek harmony Harris hath Hildebrand Jacob human human voice Hutcheson ideas imagination imitative arts immediate impressions instrumental Music Jacob kind language Leibniz manner means measure melody ment merit mind moral movement musical Composition musical expression musical imitation nature observed original Painters Painting Paradise Lost passions perception perfect perhaps philosophical picture Plato pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical Poetry and Music Power of Music principle produce proportion prosody raise rational regard resemblance rhythm seems sense of beauty sensible sentiments Shaftesbury sion Smith sound and motion succession syllables taste theory thing thought tion treatise trochee Twining ut pictura poesis verse voice Webb Webb's words καὶ τῶν
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 309 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world, at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads, to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Seite 175 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast- weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Seite 175 - Now burns with glory, and then melts with love; Now his fierce eyes with sparkling fury glow, Now sighs steal out, and tears begin to flow: Persians and Greeks like turns of nature found, And the world's victor stood subdued by sound ! The power of music all our hearts allow, And what Timotheus was, is DRYDEN now.
Seite 170 - While the bee with honied thigh, That at her flowery work doth sing, And the waters murmuring, With such consort as they keep, Entice the dewy-feather'd Sleep ; And let some strange mysterious dream Wave at his wings in airy stream...
Seite 228 - Oft on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound, Over some wide-watered shore Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom...
Seite 340 - The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school, The watch-dog's voice that bayed the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind; These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And filled each pause the nightingale had made.
Seite 170 - The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung, Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young: The jolly god in triumph comes; Sound the trumpets, beat the drums...
Seite 19 - Sense of right and wrong therefore being as natural to us as natural affection itself, and being a first principle in our constitution and make, there is no speculative opinion, persuasion, or belief, which is capable immediately or directly to exclude or destroy it.
Seite 340 - Sweet was the sound when oft at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose; There as I past with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came softened from below; The swain responsive as the milk-maid sung, The sober herd that lowed to meet their young, The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school...