Aesthetics of Music - DOWNES

Aesthetics of Music: Musicological Approaches is an anthology of fourteen essays each addressing a single key concept or pair of terms in the aesthetics of music collectively serving as an authoritative work on musical aesthetics that remains as close to 'the music' as possible. Each essay includes musical examples from works in the 18th 19th and into the 20th century. Topics have been selected from amongst widely recognised central issues in musical aesthetics as well as those that have been somewhat neglected to create a collection that covers a distinctive range of ideas. All essays cover historical origins sources and developments of the chosen idea survey important musicological approaches and offer new critical angles or musical case studies in interpretation.

TITLE: Aesthetics of Music

AUTHOR: DOWNES

SKU: 9780415699099

PUBLISHER: Taylor & Francis Ltd

DATE PUBLISHED: 02/06/2014

PLACE PUBLISHED: United Kingdom

PAGES: 324

BINDING: Hardback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 171 mm x 248 mm

WEIGHT: 703 gr