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The aesthetics of music / Roger Scruton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scruton, Roger, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.
- Music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 530 pages) : music
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Starting from the metaphysics of sound, Scruton distinguishes sound from tone, analyses rhythm, melody and harmony, looks at the various dimensions of musical meaning and offers principles for musical criticism. He ends with a theory of culture.
- Contents:
- Sound
- Tone
- Imagination and metaphor
- Ontology
- Representation
- Expression
- Language
- Understanding
- Tonality
- Form
- Content
- Value
- Analysis
- Performance
- Culture
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-816638-9
- 1-282-05179-2
- 0-19-151849-2
- 9786612051791
- OCLC:
- 1027161729
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