Aesthetic technologies of modernity, subjectivity, and nature : opera, orchestra, phonograph, film / by Leppert, Richard D.

Table of Contents: “…The civilizing process : music and the aesthetics of time-space relations in The Girl of the golden West -- Opera, aesthetic violence, and the imposition of modernity : Fitzcarraldo -- Caruso, phonography, and operatic fidelities : regimes of music listening, 1904-1929 -- Aesthetic meanderings of the sonic psyche : three operas, two notes, and one ending at the boundary of the Great Divide -- Sound, subjectivity, and death : Days of heaven (promesse du bonheur) -- Conclusion : acoustic invocations of crisis and hope.…”
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Sound and sense music and musical metaphor in the thought and writing of Goethe and his age / by Tudor, J. M.

Subjects: “…Music Philosophy and aesthetics History 18th century.…”
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Musical representations, subjects, and objects the construction of musical thought in Zarlino, Descartes, Rameau, and Weber / by Moreno, Jairo, 1963-

Subjects: “…Music Philosophy and aesthetics.…”
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Music, madness, and the unworking of language by Hamilton, John T.

Subjects: “…Music Philosophy and aesthetics History.…”
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The end of early music a period performer's history of music for the 21st century / by Haynes, Bruce, 1942-2011

Subjects: “…Music Interpretation (Phrasing, dynamics, etc.) Philosophy and aesthetics.…”
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Music, cosmology, and the politics of harmony in early China by Brindley, Erica, 1971-

Subjects: “…Music Philosophy and aesthetics.…”
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Music as a science of mankind in eighteenth-century Britain by Semi, Maria

Subjects: “…Music Philosophy and aesthetics History 18th century.…”
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Sor Juana/música how the Décima musa composed, practiced, and imagined music / by Long, Pamela H., 1956-

Subjects: “…Music Philosophy and aesthetics History 17th century.…”
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French cultural politics & music from the Dreyfus affair to the First World War / by Fulcher, Jane F.

Subjects: “…Music Philosophy and aesthetics.…”
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Middlebrow Modernism : Britten’s Operas and the Great Divide / by Chowrimootoo, Christopher, 1985-

Table of Contents: “…Middlebrow modernism -- Sentimentality under erasure in Peter Grimes -- The timely traditions of Albert Herring -- The turn of the screw, or : the Gothic Melodrama of modernism -- The burning fiery furnace and the redemption of religious Kitsch -- Death in Venice and the aesthetics of sublimation.…”
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Absolute music, mechanical reproduction by Ashby, Arved Mark

Subjects: “…Music Philosophy and aesthetics.…”
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Instruments for New Music : Sound, Technology, and Modernism / by Patteson, Thomas

Table of Contents: “…Listening to instruments -- "The joy of precision" : mechanical instruments and the aesthetics of automation -- "The alchemy of tone" : Jörg Mager and electric music -- "Sonic handwriting" : media instruments and musical inscription -- "A new, perfect musical instrument" : the trautonium and electric music in the 1930s -- The expanding instrumentarium.…”
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