Musicologia - Musical Knowledge from Plato to John Cage (Hardcover)

In Musicologia meaning "musical reasoning" as distinct from a mere love of music author and composer Robin Maconie takes aim against the fashionable misconception that music is empty of meaning, or "auditory cheesecake." Fresh and penetrating insights draw attention to the influence of musical analogy in the history of science and philosophy from ancient Greece to modern times. Since music has always existed, it is an expression of human consciousness. The discoveries of Pythagoras, Zeno, Kepler, Newton, and Einstein would not have been possible without a tradition of musical acoustics. The story of Musicologia unfolds in thirty-one chapters from primordial considerations of silence, communication, selfhood, balance, and motion to focus on more recent and specific issues of chaos, order, relativity, and artificial intelligence, showing that even the most controversial aspects of modern art music form part of a wider endeavor to engage with universal propositions of science and philosophy."

General

Imprint:	Scarecrow Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2010
First published:	July 2010
Authors:	Robin Maconie
Dimensions:	226 x 152 x 37mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	542
ISBN-13:	978-0-8108-7696-5
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General Books > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General
LSN:	0-8108-7696-5
Barcode:	9780810876965

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