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Roger Scruton is a polymath. He has written authoritatively on a huge range of subjects from the environment to wine, from cosmology to the Middle East. He is also an accomplished musician (organ and piano) and a composer of works including an opera and a song cycle. This is Scrutons second major work on music for Bloomsbury the first being Understanding Music (Continuum, 2009). In this new book he turns again to the meaning of tonality and sound. His abstract, somewhat mystical, argument on these topics includes slashing attacks on Marxist reductionism, the authenticity of Early Music, on rival aestheticians such as Adorno and on sentimentality and cliché in any form. As with Understanding Music, he also expounds his views on pop music, in a most satisfying and provocative new work.
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Scruton fastidiously argues for tonality and expression as significant components of musical compositions in this enlightening academic work. (Publishers Weekly)
This is as clear an argument for the value of Western classical music as one will find. Highly recommended. (Choice)
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This is as clear an argument for the value of Western classical music as one will find. Highly recommended. (Choice)
In the latest of his books exploring a lifetime's passion for music, bestselling author and philosopher Roger Scruton brings his immense critical faculties to bear on a panoply of different musical genres, both contemporary and classical.
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- PublisherBloomsbury Continuum
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- ISBN 13 9781472955715
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