Open AccessMusic history and the historicist imagination: Revisiting Carl Dahlhaus and Leo Treitler
Author(s) -
Žarko Cvejić
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
muzikologija
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0976
pISSN - 1450-9814
DOI - 10.2298/muz1926015c
Subject(s) - historicism , historiography , narrativity , literature , art , music history , art history , philosophy , history , narrative , musical , archaeology
This text offers a discussion and reappraisal of the historical impact of the Prussian historical school in general and of historicism in particular, epitomised in the works of Leopold von Ranke and Johann Gustav Droysen, on the historiography of music, as diagnosed by Carl Dahlhaus and Leo Treitler in Foundations of Music History and Music and Historical Imagination, with special focus on the distinction between historicism and Treitler?s ?neopositivism?, its role and those of narrativity, aesthetics, and the work concept in music historiography.