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Author Semi, Maria.

Title Music as a science of mankind in eighteenth-century Britain / Maria Semi.

Publication Info. Surrey, England UK ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., 2012.

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 Talbott: Circulating Collection  ML3797.2.G7 S45    Available  ---
Description vi, 185 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-178) and index.
Contents The contribution of music to the science of man. An ethical pleasure? Music and the education of man ; Anthropologies and psychologies of listening -- An intellectual background for British musical theories and histories. Musical knowledge and human knowledge ; Music and history.
Summary Music as a Science of Mankind offers a philosophical and historical perspective on the intellectual representation of music in British eighteenth-century culture. A particularly rich field of investigation, developed between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, was the British philosophy of the mind and of human understanding which looked at music and found in its realm a way of understanding human experience. Maria Semi sheds light on how these reflections moved towards a Science of Music: the discipline that was later to be known as 'musicology'.
Subject Musicology -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Musicology.
Great Britain.
History.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics -- History -- 18th century.
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Music theory -- History -- 18th century.
Music theory.
ISBN 9781409428688 hardcover alkaline paper
1409428680 hardcover alkaline paper
9781409428695 ebook
1409428699 ebook
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