The Aesthetics of Music

Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-19-816727-3
Verlag: OUP UK

Buch, Englisch, 560 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 831 g

Now available in paperback, this is perhaps the first comprehensive account of the nature and significance of music from the perspective of modern philosophy, and the only treatment of the subject which is properly illustrated with music examples. The book starts from the metaphysics of sound, distinguishes sound from tone, analyses rhythm, melody, and harmony, and develops a novel account of music, as the intentional object of an imaginative perception. The
argument explores the various dimensions of musical organization and musical meaning, and shows exactly how and why music is an expressive medium.

The Aesthetics of Music explains and criticizes many fashionable theories in the philosophy and theory of music, and mounts a case for the moral significance of music, its place in our culture, and the need for taste and discrimination in both performer and listener. The various schools of musical analysis are subjected to a critical examination, and recent criticism of tonality, as the foundation of musical order, are rehearsed and rejected. Scruton defends the objectivity of
aesthetic values, lays down principles of criticism, and ends with an energetic critique of modern popular music.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scruton, Roger

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Roger Scruton is a leading authority on aesthetics, but has also published books on other aspects of philosophy, politics, literature, architecture, and modern culture. Currently a freelance writer and composer, he was previously Professor of Philosophy at Boston University.