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For several decades, Scott Burnham has sought to bring a ready ear and plenty of humanistic warmth to musicological inquiry. "Sounding Values" features eighteen of his essays on mainstream Western music, music theory, aesthetics and criticism. In these writings, Burnham listens for the values-aesthetic, ethical, intellectual-of those who have created influential discourse about music, while also listening for the values of the music for which that discourse has been generated. The first half of the volume confronts pressing issues of historical theory and aesthetics, including intellectual models of tonal theory, leading concepts of sonata form, translations of music into poetic meaning, and recent rifts and rapprochements between criticism and analysis. The essays in the second half can be read as a series of critical appreciations, engaging some of the most consequential reception tropes of the past two centuries: Haydn and humor, Mozart and beauty, Beethoven and the sublime, and Schubert and memory.

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Book category Books in English The arts Music Theory of music & musicology

• Full title: Sounding Values
• Author: Scott Burnham
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 346
• EAN: 9780754628866
• ISBN: 0754628868
• ID: 04678668
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Weight: 884 g
• Dimensions: 251 × 174 × 27 mm
• Date of publishing: 14. July 2010

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