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Publisher : Pendragon Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 18,61 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780918728999
Originally published in 1966, the Reeseschrift remains one of the most significant collections of musicological writings ever assembled. Its fifty-six essays, written by some of the greatest scholars of our time, range chronologically from antiquity to the 17thcentury and geographically from Byzantium to the British Isles. They deal with questions of history, style, form, texture, notation, and performance practice.
Author : Thomas Arnold
Publisher :
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 35,53 MB
Release : 1782
Category :
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Author : Michael O'Dea
Publisher : Springer
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,98 MB
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1349239305
'...discusses virtually all the musical writings which figure in this tome of the Oeuvres completes and may even be read as a companion volume, providing a key to the understanding of its various texts...O'Dea's vividly textured and finely nuanced reading of Rousseau's musical imagination plainly does complement the Pleiade collection in two striking ways...it offers a general interpretation of the place of the philosophy of music in Rousseau's thought that is addressed to concepts which flit in and out of particular works, articulated in a voice whose clarity of tone is unmatched by a chorus of editors. Second, it pursues its case across a range of texts spread far beyond the limits of any collection of Rousseau's essays on music.' - Robert Wokler, French Literature This new study of Jean-Jacques Rousseau suggests that his early articles on music for the Encyclopidie give a unique insight into his thinking on aesthetics, affectivity and desire. Rousseau is shown as moving subsequently between two opposed tendencies. He celebrates the voice as the vehicle for the most intense moments of human experience but also frequently attacks the surrender to passion implicit in that celebration, denouncing the arts and arguing that women must be confined to the domestic sphere.
Author : Simon P. Keefe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 49,26 MB
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521851025
This volume comprises a series of essays on the life and works of Mozart.
Author : Matthew Riley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 43,51 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 1351556908
The silent attentiveness expected of concert audiences is one of the most distinctive characteristics of modern Western musical culture. This is the first book to examine the concept of attention in the history of musical thought and its foundations in the writings of German musical commentators of the late eighteenth century. Those critics explained numerous technical features of the music of their time as devices for arousing, sustaining or otherwise influencing the attention of a listener, citing in illustration works by Gluck, C. P. E. Bach, Georg Benda and others. Two types of attention were identified: the uninterrupted experience of a single emotional state conveyed by a piece of music as a whole, and the fleeting sense of 'wonder' or 'astonishment' induced by a local event in a piece. The relative validity of these two modes was a topic of heated debate in the German Enlightenment, encompassing issues of musical communication, compositional integrity and listener competence. Matthew Riley examines the significant writers on the topic (Descartes, Leibniz, Wolff, Baumgarten, Rousseau, Meier, Sulzer and Forkel) and provides analytical case studies to illustrate how these perceived modes of attention shaped interpretations of music of the period.
Author : James R. Currie
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 33,70 MB
Release : 2012-08-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 0253005221
Over the past quarter century, music studies in the academy have their postmodern credentials by insisting that our scholarly engagements start and end by placing music firmly within its various historical and social contexts. In Music and the Politics of Negation, James R. Currie sets out to disturb the validity of this now quite orthodox claim. Alternating dialectically between analytic and historical investigations into the late 18th century and the present, he poses a set of uncomfortable questions regarding the limits and complicities of the values that the academy keeps in circulation by means of its musical encounters. His overriding thesis is that the forces that have formed us are not our fate.
Author : Alice Bullard
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 13,13 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804738781
This is the strange story of how, following the failure of the revolutionary Paris Commune in 1871, some 4,500 Communards were exiled to the South Pacific colony of New Caledonia. The surprising parallels and interactions between the "political savages" and the "natural savages," the Melanesian Kanak, in their confrontation with the forces of French civilization, form the subject of this book.
Author : Madeleine B. Ellis
Publisher : Columbus : Ohio State University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 46,7 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Literary Criticism
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Author : Joshua Mitchell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 35,52 MB
Release : 1999-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226532097
In this fresh interpretation of Tocqueville's thought, Joshua Mitchell explores the dynamic interplay between religion and politics in American democracy. Focusing on Democracy in America, The Fragility of Freedom examines Tocqueville's key works and argues that his analysis of democracy is ultimately rooted in an Augustinian view of human psychology. As much a work of political philosophy as of religion, The Fragility of Freedom argues for the importance of a political theology that recognizes moderation. "An intelligent and sharply drawn portrait of a conservative Toqueville."—Anne C. Rose, Journal of American History "I recommend this book as one of a very few to approach seriously the sources of Tocqueville's intellectual and moral greatness."—Peter Augustine Lawler, Journal of Politics "Mitchell ably places Democracy in America in the long conversation of Western political and theological thought."—Wilfred M. McClay, First Things "Learned and thought-provoking."—Peter Berkowitz, New Republic
Author : Herbert Lüthy
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 32,49 MB
Release : 1970-07-21
Category : Economics
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