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Understanding Music: Philosophy and Interpretation (Hardback)
$28.57 - Save $3.22 (10%) - RRP $31.79 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Understanding MusicExplores the fundamental elements that constitute a great piece of music. This book applies the theory to the practice and examines a number of composers and musical forms - from the author's fascination with Wagner to Boulez and Hoagy Carmichael.
Full description- Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
- Published: 30 August 2009
- Format: Hardback 256 pages
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- Categories: Theory Of Music & Musicology | Music Reviews & Criticism | Techniques Of Music / Music Tutorials | Philosophy: Aesthetics
- ISBN 13: 9781847065063 ISBN 10: 1847065066
- Sales rank: 191,222
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Full description for Understanding Music
Following his celebrated book "The Aesthetics of Music", Scruton explores the fundamental elements that constitute a great piece of music.Roger Scruton is one of the most notable British philosophers of the post-war years. Like many, Bernard Williams and Brian Magee among them, he is passionately interested in music. Indeed he has written two operas.This new book applies the theory to the practice and examines a number of composers and musical forms - from Scruton's fascination with Wagner to Boulez and Hoagy Carmichael. The book ends with a devastating chapter on pop music that will be greatly relished by many, while enraging others. The consistent and passionate argument underlying the book is one for tonality and rhythm.
