Charles Avison's Essay on Musical ExpressionAuthor :
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Published : Friday 26 August 2016
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Charles Avisons Essay on musical Expression, first published in 1752, is a major contribution to the debate on musical aesthetics which developed in the course of the 18th century. Considered by Charles Burney as the first essay devoted to musical criticism proper, it established the primary importance of expression and reconsidered the relative importance of harmony and melody. Immediately after its publication it was followed by William Hayess Remarks (1753), to which Avison himself retorted in his Reply. Taken together these three texts offer a fascinating insight into the debate that raged in the 18th century between the promoters of the so-called ancient music (such as Hayes) and the more modern musicians. Beyond matters of taste, what was at stake in Avisons theoretical contribution was the assertion that the individuals response to music ultimately mattered more than the dry rules established by professional musicians. Avison also wrote several prefaces to the published editions of his own musical compositions. This volume reprints these prefaces and advertisements together with his Essay to provide an interesting view of eighteenth-century conceptions of composition and performance, and a complete survey of Avisons theory of music.
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