Science of Music

Zusatztext From reviews of Robin Maconie's The Concept of Music:'Enormously well-informed about the practical realitites of acoustics, the physics of sound, the history and architecture of music-rooms, the design of the instruments ... blinding the reader with science is certainly not his aim; all those resources are brought to bear upon the topic he keeps firmly in hand, which is music.Financial Times Informationen zum Autor Robin Maconie is Publisher Reports Manager at Dawson UK Ltd's Book Division (Library Suppliers). A New Zealand born composer and writer on music, he has been chief music critic for the TES and visiting lecturer at the City University and Surrey University. Klappentext What do Pythagoras, Plato, Newton, and Wittgenstein have in common with Jack and the Beanstalk, David and Goliath, the Hare and the Tortoise, and Formula 1 auto racing? Hearing is the clue, and musical science the answer. In his revolutionary sequel to The Concept of Music (OUP, 1990), Robin Maconie uncovers the hidden role of musical acoustics in the formulation of key concepts of science and philosophy from ancient Greece to modern times. Zusammenfassung In this sequel to "The Concept of Music", Robin Maconie teases out the musical science underlying subjects as diverse as Pythagoras's theorem, Plato's city state, mysteries of religion, myth, and folklore, theories of the mind, and key insights of Newton, Freud, and Einstein.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Robin Maconie, Robin (Professor of Music Maconie, Maconie Robin
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 24.04.1997
• EAN: 9780198166481
• ISBN: 978-0-19-816648-1
• Pagine: 232
• Serie: OUP Oxford
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Musica > Teoria musicale, didattica musicale; History of Ideas, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, HISTORY / Social History, Theory of music & musicology, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy, Theory of music and musicology