Title The emancipation of music from language : departure from mimesis in eighteenth-century aesthetics / John Neubauer.

Publication Info.	New Haven : Yale University Press, [1986]
	©1986

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Description	ix, 249 pages : music ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Bibliography: pages 223-241.
Note	Includes index.
Contents	Music and mathematics: the Pythagorean tradition -- Music and language -- Music and the affects -- Problems in musical imitation -- Rameau -- Rousseau -- D'Alembert -- Diderot -- Goethe, Diderot, and Rameau -- Sister arts -- Musical expression? -- Toward autonomous music -- Kant and the origins of formalism -- An epilogue on romanticism.
Subject	Music and language.
	Music and language.
	Music -- 18th century -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
	Music.
Chronological Term	18th century
Indexed Term	Music Aesthetics, 1700-1800
ISBN	0300035772 alkaline paper
	9780300035773 alkaline paper