Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music
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- Title
- Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music
- Author
- Ferruccio Busoni
- Publisher
- G. Schirmer
- Place
- New York
- Year
- 1911
- Extent
- 45 pages
- Language
- English; translated from German by Theodore Baker
- Type
- Music aesthetics / modernist manifesto
SCOPE & CONTENT
Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music by Ferruccio Busoni is an important historical contribution to music aesthetics / modernist manifesto. The work combines factual information with the author’s critical or pedagogical viewpoint and provides evidence about the musical priorities, repertory and intellectual debates of its period.
RESEARCH VALUE
For research, the book is most useful when its period assumptions are made explicit. It can supply primary or near-contemporary testimony, but factual and evaluative claims should be compared with modern source studies where later scholarship has revised chronology, terminology or attribution.
EDITION AND CONTENT
The curated record identifies the 1911 New York edition used as the principal bibliographic anchor, together with publisher, language and document type. Search aliases include shortened and variant forms of both title and author so the item remains discoverable even when the physical filename is abbreviated.
RESEARCH VALUE
For research, the book is most useful when its period assumptions are made explicit. It can supply primary or near-contemporary testimony, but factual and evaluative claims should be compared with modern source studies where later scholarship has revised chronology, terminology or attribution.
- Catalogue completeness
- 7 / 10 core bibliographic fields