Music and Humanism
Author: R. A. Sharpe
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780198238850
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The metaphor of music as a language has exerted a deep influence on the way we think about music and the way we hear it: we conceive of music as expressive and as something to be understood. These two ideas underpin the thought that it is a humanist art. Sharpe suggests that Western music may have entered a new period in which the language analogy and the humanist conception are becoming less and less appropriate."--BOOK JACKET.