Musicologia : musical knowledge from Plato to John Cage / Robin Maconie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maconie, Robin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Music.

Music and science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (542 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Scarecrow Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the first study of its kind to address the presence of musical and acoustical metaphor in western science and philosophy from the time of the ancient Greeks to the present. The most difficult and controversial ideas of 20th century music are shown to connect with fundamental precepts of science and philosophy: existence, continuity, number, space, time, identity, and communication.

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; 0: Go!; 1: The Aha! Theory of Creation; 2: Snake in a Tree; 3: Error; 4: Isolation; 5: Notations; 6: Wheels; 7: String Theory; 8: Paradox Regained; 9: Zeno's Arrow; 10: Path Integral; 11: Weights and Measures; 12: The Director's Cut; 13: Brane Waves; 14: Transition; 15: Transference; 16: Lecture on Nothing; 17: Atonality; 18: Sprechstimme; 19: Multiples; 20: A Cochlear Implant; 21: Serialism; 22: Schrodinger's Cat; 23: Prepared Piano; 24: Aleatory; 25: Satie's Captions; 26: Minimalism; 27: Graphic Music

28: Cluster Music29: Fractal Music; 30: Simultaneity; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-82-16-27267-0

1-283-61636-X

1-4616-6421-7

9786613928818

OCLC:

845246627