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Music and the numinous /
The continuum of music--what is it, what does it do, how does it do it--has taxed countless philosophers over recorded time, and even the verb for what it does (express? arouse? evoke? symbolize? embody?) meets with no universal agreement. Not always is music admired: in the Book of Ezekiel, the pro...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
2007.
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| Colección: | Consciousness, literature & the arts ;
8. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The continuum of music--what is it, what does it do, how does it do it--has taxed countless philosophers over recorded time, and even the verb for what it does (express? arouse? evoke? symbolize? embody?) meets with no universal agreement. Not always is music admired: in the Book of Ezekiel, the prophet likens the skilled musician to an ineffectual preacher. Richard Elfyn Jones brings new ideas to the conundrum by taking up certain philosophers not usually cited in connection with music, in particular Alfred North Whitehead and the classical Greek notion of process (as opposed to event), and thu. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (122 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781435612860 1435612868 9789401205054 9401205051 1282265687 9781282265684 9042022892 9789042022898 9786612265686 661226568X |
| ISSN: | 1573-2193 ; |