Format:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (208 p.))
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Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780511582608
Series Statement:
New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism no. 2
Content:
The search for the origins of language was one of the most pressing philosophical issues of the eighteenth century. What has often escaped notice, however, is the fact that music figures prominently in this search. This study analyses instances of thinking or reasoning about music and music theory as they appear within the logical and narrative structure of contemporary texts, including writings by Rousseau, Diderot, Rameau and Condillac. These can only be properly understood as part of an interdisciplinary project, as situated within a field of larger cultural issues and concerns. The author is interested in the ways in which music functions within this discursive framework to facilitate links between language and meaning, and between conceptions of an original society and an ideal social order
Content:
1. Music and language -- 2. Origins -- 3. Music theory and the genealogy of knowledge in Condillac's Essai sur l'origine des connaissances humaines -- 4. Music and original loss in Rousseau's Essai sur l'origine des langues -- 5. Sensible sounds: music and theories of the passions
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521473071
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521028622
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. ISBN 978-052-147-307-1
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521473071
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511582608
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