Music and the Mind"Writing with grace and clarity...he touches on everything from the evolution of the Western tonal system, to the Freudian theory of music as infantile escapism, to the differing roles o the right and left brain in perceiving music." WALL STREET JOURNAL Drawing on his own life long passion for music and synthesizing the theories of Plato, Schopenhauer, Stravinsky, Nietzsche, Bartok, and others, distinguished author and psychologist Anthony Storr illuminates music's deep beauty and timeless truth and why and how music is one of the fundamental activities of mankind. |
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... philosopher has to say about music . He ends his chapter on Schopenhauer by writing Schopenhauer is the musician's philosopher . But Schopenhauer's philosophy of music is not a fitting monument to the art . 37 I agree with some of the ...
... philosopher has to say about music . He ends his chapter on Schopenhauer by writing Schopenhauer is the musician's philosopher . But Schopenhauer's philosophy of music is not a fitting monument to the art . 37 I agree with some of the ...
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... philosopher , a better philosopher , than I generally consider myself : so patient do I become , so happy , so Indian , so settled . - To sit five hours : the first stage of holiness ! 19 Those who have never read Nietzsche seldom ...
... philosopher , a better philosopher , than I generally consider myself : so patient do I become , so happy , so Indian , so settled . - To sit five hours : the first stage of holiness ! 19 Those who have never read Nietzsche seldom ...
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... philosopher Hegel , conceive music to be an analogue of the ' inner life ' of human beings which they picture as a continuously flowing stream . Hegel pointed out that the perception of unity in a musical work required a greater effort ...
... philosopher Hegel , conceive music to be an analogue of the ' inner life ' of human beings which they picture as a continuously flowing stream . Hegel pointed out that the perception of unity in a musical work required a greater effort ...
Contents
Music Brain and Body | 24 |
Basic Patterns | 49 |
Songs Without Words | 65 |
Copyright | |
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