Revision of thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1978.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-289) and index.
Isolation of themes : problematic aspects of instrumental music in the eighteenth century -- French ideas on German soil -- Independent German currents of thought : Mattheson, Baumgarten, Krause -- Debate in the wake of Batteux : Gottsched, Nicolai, Ruetz, Hiller, Ramler, Lessing -- Contrast, change, and the worth of instrumental music : Sulzer, Junker, Forkel -- The Romantics view of instrumental music -- Conclusion : Romantic transformations of enlightened themes