The Idea of Music: An Introduction to Musical Aesthetics in Antiquity and the Middle Ages

by Herbert M Schueller

Overview

Music has long been neglected by aestheticians, who tend to privilege discussions of visual arts and literature. In this volume, Herbert M. Schueller brings the aesthetics of music into the fold, tracing the development of the idea from classical antiquity through the medieval period. He writes in a manner accessible to scholars whose specialties lie outside of technical music theory, keeping in mind especially the aesthetician but also general medieval scholars, and even the general reader.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780918720870
Publisher:	Medieval Institute Publications
Publication date:	07/01/1988
Series:	Early Drama, Art, and Music , #9
Pages:	529
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.17(h) x (d)

About the Author

Herbert M. Schueller was a professor of English at Wayne State University.

Table of Contents

Part I: The Idea of Music in Ancient Europe From Apollo to Damon Plato Aristotle Post-Aristotelian Theory: The Peripatetics The Hellenistic Dispersal of Greek Musical Theory: Epicureans and Stoics The Hellenistic Dispersal: Various Theorists Hebraism and Hellenism Aristides Quintilianus The Fruits of Hellenism: Plotinus and Neoplatonism The Decline of Hellenism Part II: The Church Fathers and the Middle Ages The Fathers of the Church St. Augustine Latin Textbook Pioneers The Carolingian and Post-Carolingian Age The Middle Ages: The Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries The Philosophers of the High Middle Ages Music Theories and Theorists of the High Middle Ages