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Beethoven's late style is epitomized by his ninth symphony, the "Missa Solemnis", as well as five piano sonatas, five string quartets, a mass, and several smaller piano works. This book examines these late works in light of the musical and philosophical writings of Theodor Adorn…
The Nature of Nordic Music
by Howell, Tim, Michael Fjeldsøe, Sanne Krogh Groth, Hans Weisethaunet, Andrew Bentley, James Andean, Àrni Heimir Ingòlfsson, Henrik Marstal, Margret Sigrun Sigurdardottir, Haftor Medbøe, Tor Dybo, Meri Kytö, Juha Torvinen, Susanna Välimäki, Tim Howell, Richard Powell, Michael Rofe
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The Oxford Handbook of Western Music and Philosophy celebrates the ways in which musicians have historically called upon philosophy as a source of inspiration and encouragement, and scholars of music through the ages have turned to philosophy for insight into music and into the …
The question of whether music has meaning has been the subject of sustained debate ever since music became a subject of academic inquiry. This book presents a synthetic and innovative approach to musical meaning which argues deftly for the thinking of music as a discourse in its…
The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music is an outstanding guide and reference source to the key topics, subjects, thinkers and debates in philosophy and music. Over fifty entries by an international team of contributors are organised into six clear sections: general issu…
Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism, Music -- 20th century -- Philosophy and aesthetics, Music -- 21st century -- History and criticism, Music -- 21st century -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Critical analysis of Rousseau's work in music has been principally the domain of musicologists, rarely involving the work of scholars of political theory or literary studies. In Rousseau Among the Moderns, Julia Simon puts forth fresh interpretations of The Social Contract, the …
This volume presents a new collection of essays, all of them dealing with music, by Jerrold Levinson, one of the most prominent philosophers of art today. It follows in the line of Levinson's earlier collections, Music, Art, and Metaphysics (1990), The Pleasures of Aesthetics (1…
The philosophy of rhythm: aesthetics, music, poetics
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"Rhythm is the fundamental pulse that animates poetry, music, and dance across all cultures. And yet the recent explosion of scholarly interest across disciplines in the aural dimensions of aesthetic experience--particularly in sociology, cultural and media theory, and literary …
