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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464532703321

Autore

Maconie Robin

Titolo

Musicologia [[electronic resource] ] : musical knowledge from Plato to John Cage / / Robin Maconie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, : Scarecrow Press, 2010

ISBN

1-283-61636-X

1-4616-6421-7

9786613928818

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (542 p.)

Disciplina

780

Soggetti

Music - Philosophy and aesthetics

Music and science

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; 0: Go!; 1: The Aha! Theory of Creation; 2: Snake in a Tree; 3: Error; 4: Isolation; 5: Notations; 6: Wheels; 7: String Theory; 8: Paradox Regained; 9: Zeno's Arrow; 10: Path Integral; 11: Weights and Measures; 12: The Director's Cut; 13: Brane Waves; 14: Transition; 15: Transference; 16: Lecture on Nothing; 17: Atonality; 18: Sprechstimme; 19: Multiples; 20: A Cochlear Implant; 21: Serialism; 22: Schrodinger's Cat; 23: Prepared Piano; 24: Aleatory; 25: Satie's Captions; 26: Minimalism; 27: Graphic Music

28: Cluster Music29: Fractal Music; 30: Simultaneity; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first study of its kind to address the presence of musical and acoustical metaphor in western science and philosophy from the time of the ancient Greeks to the present. The most difficult and controversial ideas of 20th century music are shown to connect with fundamental precepts of science and philosophy: existence, continuity, number, space, time, identity, and communication.