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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791990503321

Autore

Semi Maria

Titolo

Music as a science of mankind in eighteenth-century Britain [[electronic resource] /] / Maria Semi ; translated by Timothy Keates

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Surrey, U.K. ; ; Burlington, Vt., : Ashgate Pub., 2012

ISBN

1-315-59671-7

1-317-09220-1

1-317-09219-8

1-283-38286-5

9786613382863

1-4094-2869-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (197 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KeatesTimothy

Disciplina

780.94109033

Soggetti

Musicology - Great Britain - History - 18th century

Music - Philosophy and aesthetics - History - 18th century

Music theory - History - 18th century

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

The contribution of music to the science of man -- Anthropologies and psychologies of listening -- An intellectual background for British musical theories and histories --  Music and history.

Sommario/riassunto

Music as a Science of Mankind offers a philosophical and historical perspective on the intellectual representation of music in British eighteenth-century culture. A particularly rich field of investigation, developed between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, was the British philosophy of the mind and of human understanding which looked at music and found in its realm a way of understanding human experience. Maria Semi sheds light on how these reflections moved towards a Science of Music: the discipline that was later to be known as 'musicology'.