Essays on Music
Contributors: Richard Leppert (Editor)
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: August 19, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 760
ISBN-13: 9780520231597
Subjects: Music; Other prose: from c 1900 -; Instruction & Study - Theory; Criticism and interpretation; Literary Collections; Music/Songbooks; Philosophy and aesthetics; General; Music / General; Adorno, Theodor W.,; Essays; 1903-1969
First sentence: As with a number of other philosopher-aestheticians, Adorno addressed questions about music's fundamental nature, which for him, as for others, invited consideration of musical meaning; the question of meaning in turn invited speculation about music's relation to language, the subject of the essay "MUSIC LANGUAGE, AND COMPOSITION" (1956; this voulume, pp. 113-26).