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Understanding Music: Philosophy and Interpretation

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With Understanding Music and The Aesthetics of Music (1997) Roger Scruton set a new standard of rigour and seriousness in the philosophy of music. This collection of wide-ranging essays covers all aspects of the theory and practice of music, showing the significance of music as an expression of the moral life. The book is split into two parts, the first is devoted to the aesthetics and theory of music and the second consists of critical studies of individual composers, thinkers and works including essays on Mozart, Wagner, Beethoven's Ninth, Janacek & Schoenberg, Szymanowski and Adorno. Understanding Music will appeal to specialists in philosophy and musicology and also to music lovers who wish to find deeper meaning in this mysterious art. The Bloomsbury Revelations editions includes a new preface from author.

Author: Scruton Roger
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781474270175
Cover: Paperback
Edition Number: 1
Release Year: 2016

Preface

Part I

1 Introduction

2 Sounds

3 Wittgenstein on music

4 Movement

5 Expression

6 Rhythm

Part II

7 My Mozart

8 Beethoven's Ninth Symphony

9 The trial of Richard Wagner

10 A first shot at The Ring

11 True Authority: Janacek, Schoenberg and us

12 Thoughts on Szymanowski

13 Why read Adorno?

Bibliography

Roger Scruton was one of the foremost philosophers of conservatism; he is the author of more than twenty books of philosophy, criticism and fiction.

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