Music as a science of mankind in eighteenth-century Britain / Maria Semi.
- Semi, Maria.
- Date:
- 2012
- Books
About this work
Description
Music as a Science of Mankind offers a philosophical and historical perspective on the intellectual representation of music in British eighteenth-century culture. A particularly rich field of investigation, developed between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, was the British philosophy of the mind and of human understanding which looked at music and found in its realm a way of understanding human experience. Maria Semi sheds light on how these reflections moved towards a Science of Music: the discipline that was later to be known as 'musicology'.
Publication/Creation
Surrey ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate Pub., 2012.
Physical description
vi, 185 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contributors
Contents
The contribution of music to the science of man -- Anthropologies and psychologies of listening -- An intellectual background for British musical theories and histories -- Music and history.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references ( p. [159]-178) and index.
Languages
Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineIVH.41.AA7Open shelves
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ISBN
- 9781409428688
- 1409428680