A history of Western musical aesthetics

A history of Western musical aesthetics / Edward Lippman.

A History of Western Musical Aesthetics follows through the centuries debates about the place and function of music, the perceived role of music as a good or bad influence on the development of character, as a magical art or a domestic entertainment, and as a gateway to transcendental truths. Edward...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lippman, Edward A.
Format: Government Document Book
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©1992.
Subjects:
Music > Philosophy and aesthetics.
Table of 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.

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