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Tuning the Mind - Connecting Aesthetics to Cognitive Science (Paperback)
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Starting from the late Renaissance, efforts to make vocal music
more expressive heightened the power of words, which, in turn, gave
birth to the modern semantics of musical expression. As the
skepticism of seventeenth-century science divorced the acoustic
properties from the metaphysical qualities of music, the door was
opened to dicern the rich links between musical perception and
varied mental faculties. In Tuning the Mind, Ruth Katz and Ruth
HaCohen trace how eighteenth century theoreticians of music
examined anew the role of the arts within a general theory of
knowledge. As the authors note, the differences between the
physical and emotional dimensions of music stimulated novel
conceptions and empirical inquiries into the old aesthetic queries.
Tracing this development, their opening chapter deals with
seventeenth-century epistemological issues concerning the artistic
qualities of music. Katz and HaCohen show that painting and
literature displayed a comparable tendency toward "musicalization,"
whereby the dynamic of forms-the modalities specific to each
artistic medium-rather than subject matter was believed to
determine expression. Katz and HaCohen explore the ambiguities
inherent in idealization of an art form whose mimetic function has
always been problematic. They discuss the major outlines of this
development, from Descartes to Vico through Condillac. Particular
emphasis is placed on eighteenth-century British thinkers, from
Shaftesbury to Adam Smith, who perceived these problems in their
full complexity. They also explore how the French and the Germans
dealt differently with questions that preoccupied the British, each
nation in accordance with their own past tradition and tendencies.
The concluding chapter summarizes the parallel development of
abstract art and basic hypotheses concerning the mind and explores
basic theoretical questions pertaining to the relationship between
perception and cognition. In addressing some of the most complex
problems in musical aesthetics, Katz and HaCohen provide a unique
historical perspective on the ways their art creates and develops
coherent worlds, and, in so doing, contribute to our understanding
of the workings of the mind.
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