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Humanism, Love and Music

By Constantin Floros , Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch

Book information

Publisher
Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Year
2011
ISBN
3631630441, 9783631630440
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11518519 bytes)
Pages
264\277
Time added
2014-10-08 17:17:35

Description

«Music is no mere play of sound, no mere tonal texture, but has a significant psychic, spiritual/intellectual and social dimension. In other words: a musical art work is not merely an autonomous artifact but also document humain.» With this thesis - and with a view to the question as to the meaning of music as such - the author opens his broadly designed plea for a «humane music.» Based on interdisciplinary researches, and making use of partly unfamiliar documents, he demonstrates on musical works from Monteverdi to Alban Berg how and why they can be heard and understood as a tonal language specifically of love. The study investigates the question of how changes in the conception of love are reflected in music and concludes with a warning of a dehumanized world.

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