Downing A. Thomas, Thomas Downing a.

Music and the Origins of Language

Theories from the French Enlightenment
Herausgeber: Solie, Ruth

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This study analyses reflections on music and considers the ways in which it facilitates links between language and meaning and between conceptions of an original society and an ideal social order.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 498g
• ISBN-13: 9780521473071
• ISBN-10: 0521473071
• Artikelnr.: 21223456

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Music and language
2. Origins
3. Music theory and the genealogy of knowledge in Condillac's Essai sur l'origine des connaissances humaines
4. Music and original loss in Rousseau's Essai sur l'origine des langues
5. Sensible sounds: music and theories of the passions
Conclusion
Biography
Index.