Aesthetics and Music
- Author: Hamilton, Andy
With a fine eye for argument, for teasing out and testing key assumptions within the philosophy of music, Andy Hamilton's Aesthetics And Music charts a knife-edge course between scholarship,... — More…
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Contents
- 1. Aesthetics and music in ancient Greece;
- 2. The concept of music;
- 3. The aesthetic of form, the aesthetic of expression, and "Absolute Music": Aesthetics of music in the late 18th and 19th centuries
- 4. The sound of music;
- 5. Rhythm and time;
- 6. Adorno and modernism: Music as autonomous and "social fact"
- 7. Improvisation and composition.
