Title: The emancipation of music from language :
Authors: Neubauer, John,
Date: 1986
Publisher: Yale University Press,
Physical description: ix, 249 p. : music ; 25 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: M
Contents: Music and mathematics: the Pythagorean tradition -- Music and language -- Music and the affects -- Problems in musical imitation -- Rameau -- Rousseau -- D'Alembert -- Diderot -- Goethe, Diderot, and Rameau -- The sister arts -- Musical expression? -- Toward autonomous music -- Kant and the origins of formalism -- An epilogue on romanticism.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Music and language.; Music and literature.; Music--18th century--Philosophy and aesthetics.