Music Alone
Subtitle: Philosophical Reflections on the Purely Musical Experience
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: June 1991
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780801499609
Subjects: Aesthetics; Theory of music & musicology; Music/Songbooks; Music; History & Criticism - General; Instruction & Study - Appreciation
First sentence: In the Essai sur l'origine des langues (1764), Jean-Jacques Rousseau reports on an eighteenth-century curiosity that has, from time to time, fascinated musicians and inventors.