Author

Publication

2018 - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Language

English

Word Count

68,000 words, Guess

Page Count

272 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781472955715
  • ISBN-101472955714
  • OCLC Control Number1039967165
  • Better World Books9781472955715
  • Open LibraryOL28647788M

Classifications

  • LCCML3845
  • LCCML3845 .S3976 2018

Description

Roger Scruton is a polymath. He has written authoritatively on a huge range of subjects from the environment to wine, from cosmology to the Middle East. He is also an accomplished musician (organ and piano) and a composer of works including an opera and a song cycle. This is Scruton's second major work on music for Bloomsbury--the first being Understanding Music (Continuum, 2009). In this new book he turns again to the meaning of tonality and sound. His abstract, somewhat mystical, argument on these topics includes slashing attacks on Marxist reductionism, the authenticity of Early Music, on rival aestheticians such as Adorno and on sentimentality and cliche in any form.

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