Analysis and Value Judgement

Carl Dahlhaus (1928-1989) was one of the major contributors to the development of musicology as a scholary discipline during the post-war era. His writings cover a broad spectrum, including theory, analysis, and aesthetics. For teh range and depth of his works he was one of the most influential musical thinkers of his time.

CONTENIDO:

Preface
Premises:
- Value judgment and objetive judgment
- Aesthetics, analysis, theory
- Functional, aesthetic, and historical judgment
- Analysis and paraphrase
- Moral implications
- Historic-philosophic categories
- Aesthetics and investigations of reception

Criteria:
- "Badly composed" and trivial music
- Abundance of relationships
- Differentiation and integration
- Principles of form
- Analogy and compesation
- Audibility

Analyses:
- Bach: Cantata 106 (Actus tragicus)
- Stamitz: Symphony in D major
- Haydn: Quartet in C major, opus 20 no. 2
- Schubert: Piano Sonata in C minor, opus posthumus
- Liszt: Mazeppa
- Mahler: Second Symphony, finale
- Schönberg: Third String Quartet, opus 30