Music in the French Royal Academy of Sciences : : A Study in the Evolution of Musical Thought / / Albert Cohen.
This book describes a colorful period in French social and cultural history, during which music and science combined to provide the intellectual and aesthetic spirit of the Age of Enlightenment with an enormous vitality. Investigating the place assigned to music in France's preeminent scientifi...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1982 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (178 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- CHAPTER I. THE EARLY YEARS: MUSIC AS DISCIPLINE
- CHAPTER II. ACOUSTICS, PHONATION, AND AUDITION: MUSIC AS SOUND
- CHAPTER III. MACHINES ET INVENTIONS: MUSIC AS CRAFT
- CHAPTER IV. THEORY AND PRACTICE: MUSIC AS SYSTEM
- CONCLUSION
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index