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Author Scruton, Roger.

Title The aesthetics of music / Roger Scruton
Published Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1997

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 530 pages) : illustrations
Contents Sound -- Tone -- Imagination and metaphor -- Ontology -- Representation -- Expression -- Language -- Understanding -- Tonality -- Form -- Content -- Value -- Analysis -- Performance -- Culture
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 509-518) and indexes
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Subject Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory.
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics
Musikästhetik
Muziekfilosofie.
Esthetica.
Structuuranalyse.
Musique -- Philosophie et esthétique.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 96049339
ISBN 9780191598371
0191598372
9780191518492
0191518492