Sounding Values: Selected Essays (Ashgate Contemporary Thinkers on Critical Musicology Series)
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Sounding Values: Selected Essays (Ashgate Contemporary Thinkers on Critical Musicology Series)
Sounding Values: Selected Essays (Ashgate Contemporary Thinkers on Critical Musicology Series)

Sounding Values: Selected Essays (Ashgate Contemporary Thinkers on Critical Musicology Series)

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Scott Burnham (Author)  

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For several decades, Scott Burnham has sought to bring a ready ear and plenty of humanistic warmth to musicological inquiry. Sounding Values features eighteen of his essays on mainstream Western music, music theory, aesthetics and criticism. In these writings, Burnham listens for the values-aesthetic, ethical, intellectual-of those who have created influential discourse about music, while also listening for the values of the music for which that discourse has been generated. The first half of the volume confronts pressing issues of historical theory and aesthetics, including intellectual models of tonal theory, leading concepts of sonata form, translations of music into poetic meaning, and recent rifts and rapprochements between criticism and analysis. The essays in the second half can be read as a series of critical appreciations, engaging some of the most consequential reception tropes of the past two centuries: Haydn and humor, Mozart and beauty, Beethoven and the sublime, Schubert and memory.
Scott Burnham is Professor of Music at Princeton University, USA
  • Contributor: Scott Burnham
  • Imprint: Ashgate Publishing Limited
  • ISBN13: 9780754628866
  • Number of Pages: 346
  • Packaged Dimensions: 169x244mm
  • Packaged Weight: 884
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Release Date: 2010-07-14
  • Series: Ashgate Contemporary Thinkers on Critical Musicology Series
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Scott Burnham is Professor of Music at Princeton University, USA

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