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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Lippman, Edward A. History of Western musical aesthetics. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©1992 (OCoLC)639781468 |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Edward A Lippman |
ISBN: | 0803228635 9780803228634 0803279515 9780803279513 |
OCLC Number: | 25248148 |
Description: | 551 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Traditional Conceptions of Music -- Harmonic and Ethical Views -- The Emergence of Aesthetic Issues -- Music as a Fine Art -- Expression and Rhetoric -- Seventeenth-Century Views of Opera -- The Eighteenth Century -- Galant Aesthetics -- Imitation and Expression -- Operatic Aesthetics -- The Nineteenth Century -- Romantic Aesthetics -- Emotional Realism -- Formalism and Autonomy -- The Idealist Tradition -- The Twentieth Century -- Theories of Meaning -- Conceptions of Objectivity -- The Phenomenology of Music -- The Sociology of Music. |
Responsibility: | Edward Lippman. |
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Abstract:
Describes the beginnings of mu-sical tradition in the myths and philosophies of antiquity. This title shows how music theory began to take on new dimensions and intensity in seventeenth century, how musical esthetics was elaborated in eighteenth century, and how, by nineteenth century, music became the standard by which other arts were judged.
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