Contemplating Music: Source Readings in the Aesthetics of Music : Import - Couverture rigide

Dahlhaus, Carl; Katz, Ruth

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0918728681 ISBN 13 : 9780918728685

Editeur : Pendragon Press, 1990

Synopsis

The notion of musical import-meaning and significance-covers a wide spectrum of conferred plausibilities ranging from theories of expression and theories pertaining to aesthetic value, through symbolic theories of signification. from the editor's Introduction. Exploring in greater detail the concept of Import mentioned in Volume I (Substance), the second of this four-volume anthology of musical thought contains, under Affect and Expression, excerpts from St. Augustine, Tinctoris, Vincenzo Galilei, Marin Mersenne, Johannes A. Scheibe, Wilhelm Wackenroder, Friedrich Vischer, Leonard B. Meyer, Peter Kivy, and Roger Scruton. Reason and Experience presents the writings of Ptolemy, Galilei, Gioseffo Zarlino, August Ambros, Henri Bergson, John Dewey, and Roger Sessions. Sensory Cognition and Unconscious Referentials includes essays of René Descartes, Francis Hutcheson, Alexander Baumgarten, Hermann Kretzschmar, Arnold Schering, Susanne K. Langer, Leon ard B. Meyer Claude Lévi-Strauss, and Umberto Eco.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Ruth Katz is Emanuel Alexandra Professor of Musicology at the Hebrew University, and co-editor, with Carl Dahlhaus, of Contemplating Music, a four-volume study of the philosophy of music. She is equally interested in methodological aspects of ethnomusicological research.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pendragon Press
• Date d'édition: 1990
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0918728681
• ISBN 13: 9780918728685
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 814
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible