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Musicologia : musical knowledge from Plato to John Cage /
This is the first study of its kind to address the presence of musical and acoustical metaphor in western science and philosophy from the time of the ancient Greeks to the present. The most difficult and controversial ideas of 20th century music are shown to connect with fundamental precepts of scie...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Scarecrow Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This is the first study of its kind to address the presence of musical and acoustical metaphor in western science and philosophy from the time of the ancient Greeks to the present. The most difficult and controversial ideas of 20th century music are shown to connect with fundamental precepts of science and philosophy: existence, continuity, number, space, time, identity, and communication. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 524 p.) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [489]-499) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781461664215 1461664217 0810876965 9780810876965 9786613928818 661392881X |