Excerpt from Catechism of Musical Aesthetics
More than thirty years ago Hanslick's work "Vom Musikalisch-Schonen" put an end to the previous vague rhetorical declamation on the essence and object of music, and stimulated to keener reflection on the different factors which combine to produce that effect which music produces, Since then a pretty extensive literature has arisen, one portion of which retains Hanslick's system of Formalism - that is to say, declares the form of music to be its substance -, while the other maintains that music is capable of rendering poetic ideas musically, and that that is its office, and rejects as an empty play with forms all music that will be merely music. In addition to these two schools, which until within a recent period were the only ones existing, a third one would seem of late to have come into existence. This school, in a certain sense, reconciles the contradictory views of the other two, not simply by way of compensation and compromise, but by giving a third definition which combines and materially perfects the other two.
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