00000cam a22000004i 4500 UP-99796217613805816 Buklod 20210809141040.0 a r |||| u| ta 210809s2018 xx d r |||| u| 9781472955715 (Hardback) (iLib)UPD-00527571741 mU-5962 Purchase Php2327.50 ERASA DMUS rda eng ML3845 S38 2018 Scruton, Roger author. Music as an art Roger Scruton. London Bloomsbury Continuum 2018 263 pages music 24 cm notated music rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-249) and index 505 0# Part I, Philosophical investigations. When is a tune? ; Music and cognitive science ; Music and the moral life ; Music and the transcendental ; Tonality ; German idealism and the philosophy of music -- Part II, Critical explorations. Franz Schubert and the Quartettsatz ; Rameau the musician ; Britten's dirge ; David Matthews ; Reflections on Deaths in Venice ; Pierre Boulez ; Film music ; The assault on opera ; Nietzsche on Wagner ; The music of the future ; The culture of pop Roger Scruton is a polymath. He has written authoritatively on a huge range of subjects from the environment to wine, from cosmology to the Middle East. He is also an accomplished musician (organ and piano) and a composer of works including an opera and a song cycle. This is Scruton's second major work on music for Bloomsbury--the first being Understanding Music (Continuum, 2009). In this new book he turns again to the meaning of tonality and sound. His abstract, somewhat mystical, argument on these topics includes slashing attacks on Marxist reductionism, the authenticity of Early Music, on rival aestheticians such as Adorno and on sentimentality and cliché in any form. Music Philosophy and aesthetics. FO UPD DMUS ML3845 S38 2018 Book