TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hamilton,Andrew
TI  - Aesthetics and music
T2  - Continuum aesthetics
SN  - 9780826485182 (hbk.) :
U1  - 781.17 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - London
PB  - Continuum
KW  - Music
KW  - Philosophy and aesthetics
N1  - 1; Aesthetics and music in ancient Greece --; Music and mousike, art and techne --; The Pythagorean and Platonic-Pythagorean mathematical conception --; The ethical conception, and Plato's more empirically-minded successors Aristotle and Aristoxenus --; The separation of the value spheres --; Medieval and Renaissance musical thought --; 2; The concept of music --; The possibility of non-musical aural or sound-art --; The concept of music --; Sounds, tones and sound-art --; 3; The aesthetics of form, the aesthetics of expression and 'absolute music' : aesthetics of music in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries --; The Romantic metaphysics of music --; Kant and formalism --; Hegel : historicism and truth-content --; Schopenhauer and Wagner : absolute music --; Nietzsche : the Apollonian and the Dionysian --; Hanslick and formalism --; Expression, form and absolute music --; 4; The sound of music --; The acousmatic experience of sound --; Pythagoras and musique concrete --; A broader definition of 'acousmatic' --; Objections to the acousmatic thesis --; The twofold thesis --; A humanistic conception of music versus more abstract conceptions --; 5; Rhythm and time --; Music as an art of time --; The universality of rhythm --; A Platonic, organic definition --; Rhythm and metre --; Rhythm and accent --; Rhythm and movement --; 6; Adorno and modernism : music as autonomous and 'social fact' --; The advent of modernism --; Adorno's aesthetics of modernism --; Adorno and Kant : art as autonomous and purposeless --; Adorno and Hegel : dialectic, historicism and truth-content --; Adorno and Marx : art as commodity or social fact --; The culture industry --; Music of the avant-garde : Adorno's limited grounds for optimism --; Dialectics and the autonomy of art --; 7; Improvisation and composition --; The aesthetics of perfection and imperfection --; The concept of improvisation and 'improvised feel' --; Spontaneity and the aesthetics of perfection --; Free improvisers, interpreters and 'improvisation as a compositional method'
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