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On Music

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Author: Theodore Gracyk

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On Music

Theodore Gracyk

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Opinionated and example-filled, this extremely concise and accessible book provides a survey of some fundamental and longstanding debates about the nature of music. The central arguments and ideas of historical and contemporary philosophers are presented with the goal of making them as accessible as possible to general readers who have no background in philosophy. The emphasis is on instrumental music, but examples are drawn from many cultures as well as from Western classical, jazz, folk, and popular music.

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Publisher

Routledge

Year

2013

ISBN

9781136506550

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Topic

Medien & darstellende Kunst

Subtopic

Musikgeschichte & -kritik

Index

absolute music see pure instrumental music

Abu Bakr ibn al-Tufail 108

Adorno, Theodor 33–4; on musical materials 34

Aesop’s fables 4

aesthetic properties 55, 58–63, 123–7, 135–7; subjectivity of 125; see also beauty, sublimity

aesthetic response 14, 25–26, 28, 36, 96–97, 112, 124–9, 131, 134, 138; to nature 28–30, 131; see also purism

aesthetic theory 23–6, 28, 112, 136; Hindustani 99–102; Marxist 27; Romantic 65, 88, 97–99, 101

African-American music 20

Albert, Prince Consort 76

aleatory music 132

al-Tufail, Abu Bakr ibn 108

amusia 38, 51, 57, 59, 121

anthropomorphism 66, 87–90

architecture 109, 112

Aristotle 53

arousal theory of expression 91–5; two versions of 92

art 1–2, 4, 13–15, 21–3, 27, 31, 33–4, 66, 69–71, 90, 95–102, 114, 118, 138; abstract 40, 65; avant-garde 21; Batteux on 136; Bell on 36; Dissanayake on 14–15; Dutton on 14–15; pleasure from 22; representational 119, 135–6

art for art’s sake 27

artifacts: aesthetics of 30

Asperger’s syndrome 80

Augustine 111

Bach, Johann Sebastian 17, 30, 37, 39–41, 65; Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 21; Goldberg Variations 8, 23, 27; Toccata and Fugue in D Minor 39–40, 59; unaccompanied cello suites 16–17, 36–7, 39, 41–3, 52, 65; Well-Tempered Clavier 2...