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Music as an Art (Hardcover)
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Music as an Art (Hardcover)
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Music as an Art begins by examining music through a philosophical
lens, engaging in discussions about tonality, music and the moral
life, music and cognitive science and German idealism, as well as
recalling the author's struggle to encourage his students to
distinguish the qualities of good music. Scruton then explains -
via erudite chapters on Schubert, Britten, Rameau, opera and film -
how we can develop greater judgement in music, recognising both
good taste and bad, establishing musical values, as well as musical
pleasures. As Scruton argues in this book, in earlier times, our
musical culture had secure foundations in the church, the concert
hall and the home; in the ceremonies and celebrations of ordinary
life, religion and manners. Yet we no longer live in that world.
Fewer people now play instruments and music is, for many, a form of
largely solitary enjoyment. As he shows in Music as an Art, we live
at a critical time for classical music, and this book is an
important contribution to the debate, of which we stand in need,
concerning the place of music in Western civilization.
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