Table of Contents

"Neo-romanticism" 
The Twofold Truth in Wagner's Aesthetics:Nietzsche's Fragment "On Music and Words" 
Issues in Composition
(translated in collaboration with Arnold Whittall) 
1. The musical idea 
2. Real sequence and developing variation 
3. "Musical prose" and "endless melody" 
4. "Expanded" and "wandering" tonality 
5. The "individualization" of harmony 
6. Conclusion 
Nationalism and Music 
1. The "Volksgeist" hypothesis 
2. Nationalism and folk music 
3. On the aesthetics of national expression in music 
Appendix
Friedrich Nietzsche, "On Music and Words"
translated by Walter Kaufmann 103
Index

About the Author

Until his death in March, 1989, Carl Dahlhaus was Professor of Music at the Technische Universitat in Berlin and general editor of the complete edition of Wagner's works. He is the author of Nineteenth-Century Music (California, 1989).

Reviews

"["Between Romanticism and Modernism] is more comprehensive in scope than its modest size and essayistic style disclose at first sight; while on the vexed question of historical method it makes, both in theory and in practice, a pronouncement of policy that goes beyond the confines of "belles-lettres. . . . In themselves, the topics he broaches are the concern of any literate musician; but the familiar terrain is surveyed as if for the first time, and every turn reveals original perspectives."--Roger Hollinrake, "Music and Letters