Between Romanticism and Modernism: Four Studies in the Music of the Later Nineteenth Century Carl Dahlhaus here treats Nietzsche' s youthful analysis of the contradictions in Wagner's doctrine (and, more generally, in romantic musical aesthetics); the question of periodicization in romantic and neo-romantic music; the underlying kinship between Brahms' s and Wagner's responses to the central musical problems of their time; and the true significance of musical nationalism.

Included in this volume is Walter Kauffman 's translation of the previously unpublished fragment, "On Music and Words," by the young Nietzsche.