| Description |
1 online resource (x, 311 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Values and judgements; 3 Absolute music; 4 Program music; 5 Beautiful and sublime; 6 Dialectics and musical analysis; 7 Classicism/neoclassicism; 8 Romanticism/anti-romanticism; 9 Jazz -- avant-garde -- tradition; 10 Narrative; 11 Music and the moving image; 12 Irony; 13 Propaganda; 14 Virtuosity and the virtuoso; List of contributors; Index of musical works, composers and performers; Index of terms in aesthetics; General index |
| Summary |
Aesthetics of Music: Musicological Approaches is an anthology of fourteen essays, each addressing a single key concept or pair of terms in the aesthetics of music, collectively serving as an authoritative work on musical aesthetics that remains as close to 'the music' as possible. Each essay includes musical examples from works in the 18th, 19th, and into the 20th century. Topics have been selected from amongst widely recognised central issues in musical aesthetics, as well as those that have been somewhat neglected, to create a collection that cove |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Ethnomusicology.
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Music -- History and criticism.
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Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
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Music -- Psychological aspects.
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Musicology.
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ethnomusicology.
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musicology.
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical.
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MUSIC -- Reference.
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Ethnomusicology
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Music
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Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics
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Music -- Psychological aspects
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Musicology
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Downes, Stephen (Professor), author
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| ISBN |
9781136486913 |
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1136486917 |
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