Edmund Gurney

The Power of Sound

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

One of the most important and original treatises on musical aesthetics, first published in 1880.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 578
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 927g
• ISBN-13: 9781108038638
• ISBN-10: 1108038638
• Artikelnr.: 34448295

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. The organs and impressions of the higher senses
2. Unformed sound
3. The elements of a work of art
4. Abstract form as addressed to the eye
5. Abstract form as addressed to the ear
6. Association
7. The factors of melodic form
8. Melodic forms and the ideal motion
9. The relations of reason and order to beauty
10. Further remarks on musical form and 'subject'
11. Polyphony and harmony
12. Material and colour
13. The two ways of hearing music
14. Music as impressive and music as expressive
15. The suggestion by music of external objects and ideas
16. Music in relation to intellect and morality
17. Further peculiarities of music's nature and position
18. Music in relation to the public
19. The sound-element in verse
20. Song
21. The speech theory
22. Opera
23. Musical criticism
Appendices.