Music as an art

Music as an art

by Scruton, Roger

Type Book
Rate 0.0 /5

Roger Scruton is a polymath. He has written authoritatively on a huge range of subjects from the environment to wine, from cosmology to the Middle East. He is also an accomplished musician (organ and piano) and a composer of works including an opera and a song cycle. This is Scruton's second major work on music for Bloomsbury--the first being Understanding Music (Continuum, 2009).00In this new book he turns again to the meaning of tonality and sound. His abstract, somewhat mystical, argument on…

Read More ↓
Details
Files
Reviews
Download

Title Statements

  • Full title :Music as an art / Roger Scruton.

Summary

Roger Scruton is a polymath. He has written authoritatively on a huge range of subjects from the environment to wine, from cosmology to the Middle East. He is also an accomplished musician (organ and piano) and a composer of works including an opera and a song cycle. This is Scruton's second major work on music for Bloomsbury--the first being Understanding Music (Continuum, 2009).00In this new book he turns again to the meaning of tonality and sound. His abstract, somewhat mystical, argument on these topics includes slashing attacks on Marxist reductionism, the authenticity of Early Music, on rival aestheticians such as Adorno and on sentimentality and cliché in any form.

Read More ↓

Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2018

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Bloomsbury Continuum
  • Place of Publication:London
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©2018

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (272 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781472955722, 1472955722, 9781472955708, 1472955706
  • oclc:on1053745136
  • LC Classification:B1649.S2474
  • Dewey Decimal:111.85092

Table of Contents

Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Part I Philosophical Investigations; 1 When is a Tune?; 2 Music and Cognitive Science; 3 Music and the Moral Life; 4 Music and the Transcendental; 5 Tonality; 6 German Idealism and the Philosophy of Music; Part II Critical Explorations; 7 Franz Schubert and the Quartettsatz; 8 Rameau the Musician; 9 Britten's Dirge; 10 David Matthews; 11 Reflections on Deaths in Venice; 12 Pierre Boulez; 13 Film Music; 14 The Assault on Opera; 15 Nietzsche on Wagner; 16 The Music of the Future; 17 The Culture of Pop; Bibliography; Acknowledgements.

Read More ↓

Subjects

Music MUSIC -- General MUSIC -- History & Criticism Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics Musique -- Philosophie et esthétique PHILOSOPHY -- Aesthetics Scruton, Roger Theory of music & musicology

Writers

Scruton, Roger

Rate & Review

0.0/5
(0 people Voted)

No reviews yet. Be the first to rate this work.

Files & Downloads

  • Music as an Art -- (.epub)

    EPUB · 3.1 MB · updated
    Login →
Log in to request a copy