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Music as a Science of Mankind in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Paperback)
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Music as a Science of Mankind in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Paperback)
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Music as a Science of Mankind offers a philosophical and historical
perspective on the intellectual representation of music in British
eighteenth-century culture. From the field of natural philosophy,
involving the science of sounds and acoustics, to the realm of
imagination, involving resounding music and art, the branches of
modern culture that were involved in the intellectual tradition of
the science of music proved to be variously appealing to men of
letters. Among these, a particularly rich field of investigation
was the British philosophy of the mind and of human understanding,
developed between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which
looked at music and found in its realm a way of understanding human
experience. Focussing on the world of sensation - trying to
describe how the human mind could develop ideas and emotions by its
means - philosophers and physicians often took their cases from
art's products, be it music (sounds), painting (colours) or poetry
(words as signs of sound conveying a meaning), thus looking at art
from a particular point of view: that of the perceiving mind. The
relationship between music and the philosophies of mind is
presented here as a significant part of the construction of a
Science of Man: a huge and impressive 'project' involving both the
study of man's nature, to which - in David Hume's words - 'all
sciences have a relation', and the creation of an ideal of what Man
should be. Maria Semi sheds light on how these reflections moved
towards a Science of Music: a complex and articulated vision of the
discipline that was later to be known as 'musicology'; or
Musikwissenschaft.
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