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  2. Age of Enlightenment - Wikipedia

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    Before 1750, the German upper classes looked to France for intellectual, cultural, and architectural leadership, as French was the language of high society. By the mid-18th century, the Aufklärung (The Enlightenment) had transformed German high culture in music, philosophy, science, and literature. Christian Wolff was the pioneer as a writer ...

  3. Philosophy of music - Wikipedia

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    Philosophy of music is the study of "fundamental questions about the nature and value of music and our experience of it". [1] The philosophical study of music has many connections with philosophical questions in metaphysics and aesthetics .

  4. Western canon - Wikipedia

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    The Western canon is the embodiment of high-culture literature, music, philosophy, and works of art that are highly cherished across the Western world, such works having achieved the status of classics. Recent discussions upon the matter emphasise cultural diversity within the canon.

  5. 18th century in literature - Wikipedia

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    European literature of the 18th century refers to literature (poetry, drama, satire, essays, and novels) produced in Europe during this period. The 18th century saw the development of the modern novel as literary genre, in fact many candidates for the first novel in English date from this period, of which Daniel Defoe's 1719 Robinson Crusoe is probably the best known.

  6. Aesthetics of music - Wikipedia

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    The origin of this philosophic shift is sometimes attributed to Baumgarten in the 18th century, followed by Kant. Aesthetics is a sub-discipline of philosophy. In the 20th century, important contributions to the aesthetics of music were made by Peter Kivy, Jerrold Levinson, Roger Scruton, and Stephen Davies.

  7. Classicism - Wikipedia

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    Classicism is a specific genre of philosophy, expressing itself in literature, architecture, art, and music, which has Ancient Greek and Roman sources and an emphasis on society. It was particularly expressed in the Neoclassicism [4] of the Age of Enlightenment.

  8. Sturm und Drang - Wikipedia

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    Clearing Up: Coast of Sicily, Andreas Achenbach, 1847. Sturm und Drang (/ ˌ ʃ t ʊər m ʊ n t ˈ d r æ ŋ,-ˈ d r ɑː ŋ /, [1] German: [ˈʃtʊʁm ʔʊnt ˈdʁaŋ]; usually translated as "storm and stress" [2]) was a proto-Romantic movement in German literature and music that occurred between the late 1760s and early 1780s.

  9. Sublime (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    Romantic artists during the 19th century used the epic of nature as an expression of the sublime. In aesthetics, the sublime (from the Latin sublīmis) is the quality of greatness, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual, or artistic. The term especially refers to a greatness beyond all possibility of ...