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Understanding Music: Philosophy and Interpretation

✍ Scribed by Roger Scruton

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2016
Tongue
English
Leaves
253
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

With Understanding Music and The Aesthetics of Music (1997) Roger Scruton set a new standard of rigour and seriousness in the philosophy of music. This collection of wide-ranging essays covers all aspects of the theory and practice of music, showing the significance of music as an expression of the moral life. The book is split into two parts, the first is devoted to the aesthetics and theory of music and the second consists of critical studies of individual composers, thinkers and works including essays on Mozart, Wagner, Beethoven's Ninth, Janácek & Schoenberg, Szymanowski and Adorno. Understanding Music will appeal to specialists in philosophy and musicology and also to music lovers who wish to find deeper meaning in this mysterious art. The Bloomsbury Revelations editions includes a new preface from author.

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface to the Bloomsbury Revelations Edition
Part 1 Aesthetics
Chapter 1 Introduction
Notes
Chapter 2 Sounds
Notes
Chapter 3 Wittgenstein on music
Notes
Chapter 4 Movement
Notes
Chapter 5 Expression
Notes
Chapter 6 Rhythm
Notes
Part 2 Criticism
Chapter 7 My Mozart
Notes
Chapter 8 Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony
Notes
Chapter 9 The Trial of Richard Wagner
Notes
Chapter 10 A FIRST SHOT at The Ring
Notes
Chapter 11 True Authority: Janáček, Schoenberg and us
Notes
Chapter 12 Thoughts on Szymanowski
Notes
Chapter 13 Why read Adorno?
Notes
Bibliography
Index of Subjects
Index of Names

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