LEADER 03550nam 22006371 450 001 9910453282603321 005 20200514202323.0 010 $a1-4725-4536-2 010 $a1-283-20768-0 010 $a1-4411-9150-X 010 $a9786613207685 024 7 $a10.5040/9781472545367 035 $a(CKB)2550000001252079 035 $a(EBL)742792 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000520767 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11364262 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000520767 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10516847 035 $a(PQKB)11434064 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC742792 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL742792 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10867495 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL320768 035 $a(OCoLC)893335634 035 $a(OCoLC)1148145145 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09255584 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001252079 100 $a20140929d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAesthetics and music /$fAndy Hamilton 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cContinuum,$d2007. 215 $a1 online resource (257 p.) 225 1 $aBloomsbury Aesthetics 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8264-8519-7 311 $a0-8264-8518-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 218-233) and index. 327 $a1. Aesthetics and Music in Ancient Greece  -- 2. The Concept of Music -- 3. The Aesthetics of Form, the Aesthetics of Expression, and 'Absolute Music': aesthetics of music in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- 4. The Sound of Music -- 5. Rhythm and Time  -- 6. Adorno and Modernism: Music as autonomous and 'social fact' -- 7. Improvisation and Composition -- Bibliography -- Index 330 8 $aThe Continuum Aesthetics Series looks at the aesthetic questions and issues raised by all major art forms. Stimulating, engaging and accessible, the series offers food for thought not only for students of aesthetics, but also for anyone with an interest in philosophy and the arts. Aesthetics and Music is a fresh and often provocative exploration of the key concepts and arguments in musical aesthetics. It draws on the rich heritage of the subject, while proposing distinctive new ways of thinking about music as an art form. The book looks at: The experience of listening Rhythm and musical movement What modernism has meant for musical aesthetics The relation of music to other 'sound arts' Improvisation and composition as well as more traditional issues in musical aesthetics such as absolute versus programme music and the question of musical formalism. Thinkers discussed range from Pythagoras and Plato to Kant, Nietzsche and Adorno. Areas of music covered include classical, popular and traditional music, and jazz. Aesthetics and Music makes an eloquent case for a humanistic, democratic and genuinely aesthetic conception of music and musical understanding. Anyone interested in what contemporary philosophy has to say about music as an art form will find this thought-provoking and highly enjoyable book required reading. 410 0$aBloomsbury Aesthetics 606 $aMusic$xPhilosophy and aesthetics 606 $2Philosophy: aesthetics 615 0$aMusic$xPhilosophy and aesthetics. 676 $a781.1/7 700 $aHamilton$b Andy$f1957-$0983977 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 801 2$bUkLoBP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910453282603321 996 $aAesthetics and music$92246764 997 $aUNINA