The Sight of Sound
Subtitle: Music, Representation, and the History of the Body
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: October 15, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9780520203426
Subjects: Cultural studies; Sociology, Social Studies; Theory of music & musicology; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Music; Music/Songbooks; Genres & Styles - Classical; Music / General; Instruction & Study - Songwriting; Instruction & Study - Composition
First sentence: SOME YEARS AGO A Music Party (1633; Fig. 3), by the Dutch artist Jan Miense Molenaer, was the subject of an important essay by the art historian P. J. J. van Thiel, whose ideas I want to summarize before providing my own reading.