Music as a Science of Mankind in Eighteenth-Century Britain.
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Music as a Science of Mankind in Eighteenth-Century Britain.
Yazar:
Semi, Maria.
ISBN:
9781409428695
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1 online resource (197 pages)
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Cover -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: The contribution of music to the 'Science of Man' -- 1 An ethical pleasure? Music and the education of man -- Art at the tea-table: Joseph Addison, the pleasures of the imagination and listening as a social virtue -- Interior listening and political harmony: Lord Shaftesbury -- The critic at the opera: John Dennis, music-hating moralist -- Addison and Steele: critique and practice of music -- Conclusions -- 2 Anthropologies and psychologies of listening -- Music and 'natural sympathy' -- Sympathetic emotions: vocal and instrumental music according to Lord Kames -- A 'mechanical' musical sympathy: Daniel Webb -- Musical expression -- Mimesis and imitation in music: Aristotle and the Moderns in the comparison of Thomas Twining -- The beauty of the 'system': the new musical listening of Adam Smith -- Conclusions -- PART II: An intellectual background for British musical theories and histories -- 3 Musical knowledge and human knowledge -- Alexander Malcolm: A Treatise of Musick, Speculative, Practical and Historical (Edinburgh, 1721) -- Musical sound in a Lockeian mind: Alexander Malcolm's speculative music -- Music and the human mind: a new goal for the music of the Moderns -- John Frederick Lampe: The Art of Musick (London, 1740) -- Charles Avison: An Essay on Musical Expression (London, 1752) -- The foundations of the art of music: the philosophical background of Charles Avison -- Expression and imitation -- Musical perfection as the ideal combination of knowledge, deed and action -- Conclusions -- 4 Music and history -- Historical Pyrrhonism and antiquarian research: the music of the Ancients in Burney and Hawkins -- A forgotten 'Science of Music': the musicology conceived by Sir John Hawkins.
'Sonata' replies to Fontenelle: Charles Burney's Essay on Musical Criticism -- 'Unluckily for Purcell!': Charles Burney and the progressive fate of musical material -- Sir John Hawkins and the non-progressive nature of taste -- The histories of music: cultural collocation of a literary genre -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index.
Özet:
Music as a Science of Mankind offers a philosophical and historical perspective on the intellectual representation of music in British eighteenth-century culture. From the field of natural philosophy, involving the science of sounds and acoustics, to the realm of imagination, involving resounding music and art, the branches of modern culture that were involved in the intellectual tradition of the science of music proved to be variously appealing to men of letters. Among these, a particularly rich field of investigation was the British philosophy of the mind and of human understanding, developed between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which looked at music and found in its realm a way of understanding human experience. Focussing on the world of sensation - trying to describe how the human mind could develop ideas and emotions by its means - philosophers and physicians often took their cases from art's products, be it music (sounds), painting (colours) or poetry (words as signs of sound conveying a meaning), thus looking at art from a particular point of view: that of the perceiving mind. The relationship between music and the philosophies of mind is presented here as a significant part of the construction of a Science of Man: a huge and impressive 'project' involving both the study of man's nature, to which - in David Hume's words - 'all sciences have a relation', and the creation of an ideal of what Man should be. Maria Semi sheds light on how these reflections moved towards a Science of Music: a complex and articulated vision of the discipline that was later to be known as 'musicology'; or Musikwissenschaft.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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