Estetyka muzyki
Aesthetics of music

Author(s): Carl Dahlhaus
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Music
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: music; musicology; aesthetics of music; musical composition; aesthetic judgement
Summary/Abstract: A portrayal of the fundamental issues of modern aesthetics of music related to the understanding of music as an art with autonomous artistic techniques. The author uses a systematical approach with a historical perspective, linking each topic to its origins and subsequent phases of development. He considers theoretical and aesthetic issues which had been shaping the modern musical discourse for three centuries, for example the concept of music as an analogy of verbal text, the evolution of aesthetic attitudes and the dilemma of the objectivity of judgements.

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