Philosophy of Music
eBook - ePub

Philosophy of Music

A History

  1. 180 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Philosophy of Music

A History

About this book

Ranging from Antiquity to contemporary analytic philosophy, it provides a concise but thorough analysis of the arguments developed by some of the most outstanding philosophers of all times. Besides the aesthetics of music proper, the volume touches upon metaphysics, ethics, philosophy of language, psychology, anthropology, and scientific developments that have influenced the philosophical explanations of music. Starting from the very origins of philosophy in Western thought (Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle) the book talks about what music is according to Augustine, Descartes, Leibniz, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, the Romantics, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Susanne Langer, Bloch, Adorno, and many others. Recent developments within the analytic tradition are illustrated with particular attention to the ontology of the musical artwork and to the problem of music and emotions. A fascinating idea which recurs throughout the book is that philosophers allow for a sort of a secret kinship between music and philosophy, as means to reveal complementary aspects of truth.

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Information

Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2019
Print ISBN
9783110763362
eBook ISBN
9783110624724

Subject Index

  • absolute music
  • academies
  • acoustics
  • acute and grave
  • aeolian harp
  • aesthetic idea
  • aesthetics of music
  • affects
  • air
  • Amphion, myth of
  • analytic philosophy
  • ancient and modern music
  • angelic choir
  • anthropology
  • anti-naturalism
  • antirealism
  • Apollo
  • apperception
  • Arion
  • Aristotelianism
  • arousal theory
  • ars
  • ars combinatoria
  • ars nova
  • atonal music
  • aulos
  • Berlin school of comparative musicology
  • Bible
  • Cartesianism
  • catharsis
  • charm
  • charme
  • chord
  • choreutics
  • chromatic tuning
  • cicadas, myth of
  • classicism
  • classification of the arts
  • cognitivism
  • consonance
  • continental philosophy
  • cosmic music
  • counterpoint
  • Croce-Collingwood hypothesis
  • crying
  • cultural value of music
  • dance
  • Demiurge, myth of
  • demonic in music
  • diatonic tuning
  • dissonance
  • dorian harmony
  • dualism
  • duration of sounds
  • Dyonisos
  • ecclesiastical modes
  • Echo, myth of
  • education
  • Egyptians, music of the
  • emotions
  • empathy
  • empiricism
  • encyclopedists
  • enhanced formalism
  • enharmonic tuning
  • entertainment
  • Epicureans
  • Er, myth of
  • ethics
  • ethnomusicology
  • ethos
  • Eurydice, myth of
  • experimentation
  • expert listening
  • expression in music
  • expressionism
  • extreme Platonism
  • fantasy
  • feelings
  • fifth
  • formalism
  • fourth
  • Frankfurt School
  • frequency
  • fugue
  • fundamental bass
  • games
  • German music
  • German philosophy
  • Gestalt psychology
  • Glasharmonika
  • Glaucus, myth of
  • grammar
  • gramophone
  • harmonics
  • harmonikoi
  • harmony
  • hearing
  • hearing-as
  • heliocentrism
  • hermeneutics
  • history of music
  • humanism
  • humanity
  • ictus, theory of
  • ideal objects
  • idealism
  • imaginary museum of musical works
  • imagination
  • imitation
  • impressionism
  • ineffability
  • inexpressiveness
  • instrumental music
  • intellectualism
  • intentionality
  • jazz
  • ...

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Preface
  5. Introduction
  6. First Chapter The Art of the Muses
  7. Second Chapter Harmony and Disenchantment
  8. Third Chapter The Century of Music
  9. Fourth Chapter Dissonances
  10. References
  11. Index of Names
  12. Subject Index