| Description |
xvi, 358 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-347) and index. |
| Contents |
Themes and variations. Diction : a rhapsody ; Singing, creativity, and courage ; A modest proposal -- Words, music, and meaning. Words and words, words and the world : intertextuality ; Music and words 1 : musikē ; Music and words 2 : Nietzsche and The birth of tragedy -- Science, music, paradigms, and meaning. Science and paradigms ; Science and music : paradigms and "normal practitioners" ; Einstein and Schoenberg : the move to radical abstraction ; Modernism and the "end" of paradigms -- Toward a symbiosis : rational and a-rational. Modernism, postmodernism, and the reproduction of distraction ; Self, difference, and reconciliation. |
| Subject |
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
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Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics. |
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Musical canon.
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Musical canon. |
| ISBN |
9781604975581 alkaline paper |
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160497558X alkaline paper |
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