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Music and Humanism: An Essay in the Aesthetics of Music

Music and Humanism: An Essay in the Aesthetics of Music

Hardcover

PhilosophyLinguisticsMusic Instruction: General

ISBN10: 0198238851
ISBN13: 9780198238850
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: Aug 10 2000
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Robert Sharpe examines the humanist conception of music as a language--as expressive and intelligible--which has been a dominant theory in Western culture. He argues against the view that music is expressive by causing certain states in us. Rather, he contends that our beliefs about music are integral to our appreciation of it. Differences in musical taste are then not just irresolvable differences in sensitivity, but the result of variations in circumstance and upbringing, of associations and ideology.

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