Title: Early music and the aesthetics of Ezra Pound
Description: Ezra Pound's assimilation of some of the aesthetic values of the music of the 16th and 17th centuries is thought to have formed one of the important bases for his more general critical convictions. Some of the qualities important to Pound's overall aesthetic philosophy also characterize the old music, including: the effect of medium on overall meaning; "impersonality"; concision and small-scale; tension between "fundamental irregularity" and "classicism of surface"; and the moral and intellectual value of sharp distinct form. Pound's studies of the technical foundations of music affected much of his poetic and theoretical work.
Subjects: Aesthetics, England, History, History and criticism, Knowledge, Modern Aesthetics, Music, Music and literature, Poetics, Renaissance, Knowledge and learning, Songs and music
Places: England
People: Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
Time periods: 16th century, 17th century, 20th century