Sounding Values - Selected Essays (Paperback)

For several decades, Scott Burnham has sought to bring a ready ear and plenty of humanistic warmth to musicological inquiry. Sounding Values features eighteen of his essays on mainstream Western music, music theory, aesthetics and criticism. In these writings, Burnham listens for the values-aesthetic, ethical, intellectual-of those who have created influential discourse about music, while also listening for the values of the music for which that discourse has been generated. The first half of the volume confronts pressing issues of historical theory and aesthetics, including intellectual models of tonal theory, leading concepts of sonata form, translations of music into poetic meaning, and recent rifts and rapprochements between criticism and analysis. The essays in the second half can be read as a series of critical appreciations, engaging some of the most consequential reception tropes of the past two centuries: Haydn and humor, Mozart and beauty, Beethoven and the sublime, Schubert and memory.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Ashgate Contemporary Thinkers on Critical Musicology Series
Release date:	June 2020
First published:	2010
Authors:	Scott Burnham
Dimensions:	244 x 169mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	346
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-60271-0
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General Books > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General
LSN:	0-367-60271-7
Barcode:	9780367602710

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