A history of Western musical aesthetics
By: Edward Lippman.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Lincoln,(Neb.); London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 551
ISBN-13: 9780803279513
Subjects: Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Table of contents: title: Part one : Traditional conceptions of music.; title: 1. Harmonic and ethical views; title: Part two : The emergence of aesthetic issues.; title: 2. Music as a fine art; title: 3. Expression and rhetoric; title: 4. Seventeenth-century views of opera; title: Part three : The eighteenth century.; title: 5. Galant aesthetics; title: 6. Imitation and expression; title: 7. Operatic aesthetics; title: Part four : The nineteenth century.; title: 8. Romantic aesthetics; title: 9. Emotional realism; title: 10. Formalism and autonomy; title: 11. The idealist tradition; title: Part five : The twentieth century.; title: 12. Theories of meaning; title: 13. Conceptions of objectivity; title: 14. The phenomenology of music; title: 15. The sociology of music