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Aesthetics of Music
The Aesthetics of Music is a specialized field of Philosophy which studies fundamental questions. Regarding the mind, what is the role of the senses? What is the role of experience? What are the influences of pleasure and pain? Following the pioneer work of Aristotle, the most fundamental definition lies in the distinction between art music and entertainment music. But what is the role of the public? Everyone knows that the purpose of music is to communicate emotions. But does this purpose refer to the emotions of the composer, the performer or the listener? These are important questions relative to music and society. Virtually all early philosophers found the value of music education to lie in character development. What did they mean?
For the first time, Dr. David Whitwell presents a thorough study of the performance of music in society together with the philosophical views on art versus entertainment, the role of performance in education and character formation and how earlier philosophers viewed the interplay among Reason, Emotions, experience and the senses.
Aesthetics of Music, Vol. 1:
Aesthetics of Music in Ancient Civilizations
This volume, the first of eight, reviews philosophical thought on the Aesthetics of Music from before Socrates through the Roman Empire.
Length: 540 pages
Language: English
Publication Year: 2011
Aesthetics of Music, Vol. 2:
Aesthetics of Music in the Middles Ages
The present volume studies these questions and more from the beginning of the Christian Era through the Dark Ages to the dramatic twelfth and thirteenth centuries when the Crusades, Troubadours, Minnesingers, Minstrels and poets all point to a new era, the Renaissance.
Length: 476 pages
Language: English
Publication Year: 2011
Aesthetics of Music, Vol. 3:
Aesthetics of Music in the Early Renaissance
The present volume studies these questions and more during the first two centuries of the Renaissance. While the Church continued to sponsor important music, the spotlight had clearly turned to the growing cultivation of the arts in the individual courts and the public at large, as is documented by a number of great writers, among them Petrarch, Boccaccio and Chaucer. ...
Length: 350 pages
Language: English
Publication Year: 2012
Aesthetics of Music, Vol. 4:
Aesthetics of Music in Sixteenth-Century
Italy, France and Spain
The present volume gives the reader a comprehensive view of the aesthetics of music in sixteenth-century Italy, France and Spain. Included here are some of the greatest writers and artists of the High Renaissance, including Castiglione, Cardano, Michelangelo and Montaigne. ...
Length: 368 pages
Language: English
Publication Year: 2013
Aesthetics of Music, Vol. 5:
Aesthetics of Music in Sixteenth-Century
Germany, the Low Countries and England
The present volume gives the reader a comprehensive view of the aesthetics of music in sixteenth-century Germany, England and the Low Countries. Included here are the first significant contemporary German performance descriptions by Michael Praetorius, Cochlaeus, Ornithoparchus, Listenius, Glarean and Coclico. And of course the reader will find the aftermath of Martin Luther through the accounts of Erasmus. ...
Length: 412 pages
Language: English
Publication Year: 2013
Aesthetics of Music, Vol. 6:
Aesthetics of Baroque Music in Italy,
Spain, the German-Speaking Countries
and the Low Countries
This volume presents these studies in Italy, led by the famous Camerata, Spain and Germany. From Germany we are particularly fortunate to have extensive documentation of this new view of music by important composers and philosophers, including major figures such as Leibniz and Spinoza. This quest to explain music through the communication of emotions even led Johannes Kepler ...
Length: 334 pages
Language: English
Publication Year: 2013
Aesthetics of Music, Vol. 7:
Aesthetics of Baroque Music in France
The present volume reveals a performance practice by the leading French composers which extends far beyond what appears on the page, in particular their joining their European colleagues in the emphasis on expressing emotions in music. This period included an extraordinary burst of philosophical thought on the nature of music and the ways in which French music contrasted with the Italian practice. ...
Length: 350 pages
Language: English
Publication Year: 2013
Aesthetics of Music, Vol. 8:
Aesthetics of Baroque Music in England
The present volume presents for the first time a comprehensive view of the aesthetic principles of English culture during the Baroque. Following the usual division into Jacobean and Restoration Periods, the reader will find here a detailed study of Music as reflected in court and civic performances, but also as reflected in poetry, theater and the Church. ...
Length: 494 pages
Language: English
Publication Year: 2013
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