
A Language of Its Own
Sense and Meaning in the Making of Western Art Music
Ruth Katz(Author)
University of Chicago Press
Published on 12. August 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
242 pages
978-0-226-42597-9 (ISBN)
Description
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. With sweeping scope and philosophical depth, A Language of Its Own traces the past millennium of this ongoing exchange. Ruth Katz argues that the indispensable relationship between intellectual production and musical creation gave rise to the Western conception of music. As ideas entered music from the contexts out of which it arose, its internal language developed in tandem with shifts in intellectual and social history. Katz explores how this infrastructure allowed music to explain itself from within, creating a self-referential and rational foundation that has begun to erode in recent years. A magisterial exploration of this frequently overlooked intersection of Western art and philosophy, A Language of Its Own restores music to its rightful place in the history of ideas.
Reviews / Votes
"This book is the crowning achievement of a first-rate scholar, drawing on decades of intensive as well as extensive expertise. The perspective it offers on Western art music is not just exceptionally well informed but also thoroughly original. Scholars in generations to come will find it an invaluable document of how scholars working at the end of the Western canonic paradigm viewed that paradigm." (Rose Rosengard Subotnik, Brown University)"More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Chicago
United States
Publishing group
The University of Chicago Press
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 23 mm
Width: 16 mm
Thickness: 2 mm
Weight
567 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-226-42597-9 (9780226425979)
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01/2010
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University of Chicago Press
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Person
Ruth Katz is the Emanuel Alexandre Professor Emerita of Musicology at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.