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Music as a Science of Mankind in Eighteenth-Century Britain

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Music as a Science of Mankind in Eighteenth-Century Britain book

Music as a Science of Mankind in Eighteenth-Century Britain

DOI link for Music as a Science of Mankind in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Music as a Science of Mankind in Eighteenth-Century Britain book

ByMaria Semi, translated by Timothy Keates
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2012
eBook Published 29 April 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315596716
Pages 196 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315596716
SubjectsArts, Humanities
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Semi, M., Keates, t. (2012). Music as a Science of Mankind in Eighteenth-Century Britain. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315596716

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |22 pages

Introduction

part |4 pages

PART I The contribution of music to the ‘science of man’

chapter 1|30 pages

An ethical pleasure? Music and the education of man

chapter 2|48 pages

Anthropologies and psychologies of listening

part |4 pages

PART II: An intellectual background for British musical theories and histories

chapter 3|22 pages

Musical knowledge and human knowledge

chapter 4|28 pages

Music and history Historical Pyrrhonism and antiquarian research: the music of the

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