Title The emancipation of music from language : departure from mimesis in eighteenth-century aesthetics / John Neubauer

Published New Haven : Yale University Press, [1986] ©1986

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Description ix, 249 pages : music ; 25 cm Contents Music and mathematics: the Pythagorean tradition -- Music and language -- Music and the affects -- Problems in musical imitation -- Rameau -- Rousseau -- D'Alembert -- Diderot -- Goethe, Diderot, and Rameau -- The sister arts -- Musical expression? -- Toward autonomous music -- Kant and the origins of formalism -- An epilogue on romanticism Analysis Music Aesthetics 1700-1800 Music Aesthetics, 1700-1800 Notes Includes index Bibliography Bibliography: pages 223-241 SUBJECT Mimesis. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86742975 Subject Music and language. Music -- 18th century -- Philosophy and aesthetics. LC no. 85014355 ISBN 0300035772 (alk. paper)

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