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OverviewStarting from the late Renaissance, efforts to make vocal music more expressive heightened the power of words, which, in turn, gave birth to the modern semantics of musical expression. As the skepticism of seventeenth-century science divorced the acoustic properties from the metaphysical qualities of music, the door was opened to dicern the rich links between musical perception and varied mental faculties. In Tuning the Mind, Ruth Katz and Ruth HaCohen trace how eighteenth century theoreticians of music examined anew the role of the arts within a general theory of knowledge. As the authors note, the differences between the physical and emotional dimensions of music stimulated novel conceptions and empirical inquiries into the old aesthetic queries. Tracing this development, their opening chapter deals with seventeenth-century epistemological issues concerning the artistic qualities of music. Katz and HaCohen show that painting and literature displayed a comparable tendency toward ""musicalization,"" whereby the dynamic of forms - the modalities specific to each artistic medium - rather than subject matter was believed to determine expression. Katz and HaCohen explore the ambiguities inherent in idealization of an art form whose mimetic function has always been problematic. They discuss the major outlines of this development. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ruth HaCohen , Ruth HaCohenPublisher: Taylor & Francis Inc Imprint: Transaction Publishers Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.770kg ISBN: 9780765800817ISBN 10: 0765800810 Pages: 332 Publication Date: 31 March 2002 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviews-For a musician and other interested readers, this work is a daring and insightful vehicle for highlighting historical and conceptual connections that provide a further contribution to the growing awareness of the untenability of a compartmentalized conception of human culture and cognition.----Marcos Magalhes For a musician and other interested readers, this work is a daring and insightful vehicle for highlighting historical and conceptual connections that provide a further contribution to the growing awareness of the untenability of a compartmentalized conception of human culture and cognition. ---Marcos Magalhes For a musician and other interested readers, this work is a daring and insightful vehicle for highlighting historical and conceptual connections that provide a further contribution to the growing awareness of the untenability of a compartmentalized conception of human culture and cognition. <br>---Marcos Magalhes Author InformationRuth Katz is Emanuel Alexandre Professor of Musicology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She is co-editor with Carl Dahlhaus of Contemplating Music, a four-volume study of the philosophy of music. Ruth HaCohen is Clarica and Fred Davidson Senior Lecturer of Musicology at the Hebrew University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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