Book: Music And Humanism: An Essay In The Aesthetics Of Music Robert Sharpe examines the humanist conception of music as a language--as expressive and intelligible--which has been a dominant theory in Western culture. He argues against the view that music is expressive by causing certain states in us. Rather, he contends that our beliefs about music are integral to our appreciation of it. Differences in musical taste are then not just irresolvable differences in sensitivity, but the result of variations in circumstance and upbringing, of associations and ideology.
Details of Book: Music And Humanism: An Essay In The Aesthetics Of Music Book: Music And Humanism: An Essay In The Aesthetics Of Music
Author: R. A. Sharpe
ISBN: 0198238851
ISBN-13: 9780198238850
, 978-0198238850
Binding: Hardcover
Publishing Date: 08062000
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Usa
Number of Pages: 236
Language: English