Musicologia: Musical Knowledge from Plato to John Cage (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780810876965)

This is the first study of its kind to address the presence of musical and acoustical metaphor in western science and philosophy from the time of the ancient Greeks to the present. The most difficult and controversial ideas of 20th century music are shown to connect with fundamental precepts of science and philosophy: existence, continuity, number, space, time, identity, and communication.

Author: Robin Maconie
ISBN-10: 0810876965
ISBN-13: 9780810876965
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Language: English
Published: 07/09/2010
Pages: 542
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.90lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.70w x 1.50d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2011

About the Author
Robin Maconie is a composer and musicologist. He is the author of The Way of Music: Aural Training for the Internet Generation (Scarecrow, 2006), Other Planets: The Music of Karlheinz Stockhausen (Scarecrow, 2005), and The Second Sense: Language, Music, and Hearing (Scarecrow, 2002).