Tuning the mind : connecting aesthetics to cognitive science / Ruth Katz and Ruth HaCohen.

Author/creator Katz, Ruth, 1927-
Other author HaCohen, Ruth.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, ©2003.
Descriptionxiv, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Moving the passions of the mind: the ascendance of a query -- From harmony of the spheres to the atmosphere of music: trends in seventeenth-and eighteenth-century art -- Music's begotten illusion -- Signs as cognitive tools -- Sense, sensibility and commonsense -- The French and German scene -- Postscript: sense and meaning interlocked.
Abstract Starting from the late Renaissance, efforts to make vocal music more expressive heightened the power of words, which, in turn, gave birth to the modern semantics of musical expression. As the skepticism of seventeenth-century science divorced the acoustic properties from the metaphysical qualities of music, the door was opened to discern the rich links between musical perception and varied mental faculties. This book traces how eighteenth-century theoreticians of music examined anew the role of the arts within a general theory of knowledge.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
LCCN 2002072131
ISBN0765800810 (alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Music Music Stacks ML3838 .K28 2003 ✔ Available Place Hold