The Idea of Music
An Introduction to Musical Aesthetics in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
By (author) Herbert M. Schueller
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(December 1988)
ISBN: 9780918720887
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(July 1988)
ISBN: 9780918720870
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Music has long been neglected by aestheticians, who tend to privilege discussions of visual arts and literature. In this volume, Herbert M. Schueller brings the aesthetics of music into the fold, tracing the development of the idea from classical antiquity through the medieval period. He writes in a manner accessible to scholars whose specialties lie outside of technical music theory, keeping in mind especially the aesthetician but also general medieval scholars, and even the general reader.
Dedication
Preface
Part I: The Idea of Music in Ancient Europe
From Apollo to Damon
Plato
Aristotle
Post-Aristotelian Theory: The Peripatetics
The Hellenistic Dispersal of Greek Musical Theory: Epicureans and Stoics
The Hellenistic Dispersal: Various Theorists
Hebraism and Hellenism
Aristides Quintilianus
The Fruits of Hellenism: Plotinus and Neoplatonism
The Decline of Hellenism
Part II: The Church Fathers and the Middle Ages
The Fathers of the Church
St. Augustine
Latin Textbook Pioneers
The Carolingian and Post-Carolingian Age
The Middle Ages: The Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
The Philosophers of the High Middle Ages
Music Theories and Theorists of the High Middle Ages
Appendix A: Diagrammatic Scheme of Ptolemy's Psychology Relating to Music
Appendix B: The Roman Rite
Appendix C: Hugh of St.-Victor's Classification of the Arts and Sciences
Appendix D: Gundisalvo's System of the Arts and Sciences
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
- By (author) Herbert M. Schueller
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