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A Language of Its Own: Sense and Meaning in the Making of Western Art Music Ruth Katz
A Language of Its Own: Sense and Meaning in the Making of Western Art Music
Ruth Katz
The Western musical tradition has produced not only music, but also countless writings about music that remain in continuous - and enormously influential - dialogue with their subject. This book argues that the indispensable relationship between intellectual production and musical creation gave rise to the Western conception of music.
352 pages, 4 halftones, 7 line drawings
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | June 15, 2010 |
| ISBN13 | 9780226425962 |
| Publishers | The University of Chicago Press |
| Pages | 384 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 20 mm · 709 g |