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  • Hearing with the Mind

    Proto-Cognitive Music Theory in the Scottish Enlightenment

    by Carmel Raz ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Music Theory
    Hearing with the Mind synthesizes two exciting approaches to music--cognitive psychology and social history--by focusing on the remarkable work of musical theorist John Holden (1729--72) during the Scottish Enlightenment. One of the first musical thinkers to propose a detailed account of how the human mind perceives music, Holden had an unconventional background as a merchant potter and appears to ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • The Attentive Ear

    Sound, Cognition, and Subjectivity in the Long Nineteenth Century

    Edited by Francesca Brittan, Carmel Raz ...
    Series series Sound in History
    An interdisciplinary history of auditory attention that demonstrates the central role of audition in shaping our conceptions of focus and distractionOver the past decade, attention and its perceived opposite, distraction, have become sites of sustained anxiety and debate. Questions around attentive economies, histories, and cognitive modes have surfaced across a range of disciplines from cultural ... Read more

    $57.59 USD

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  • Sound and Sense in British Romanticism

    Edited by James Grande, Carmel Raz ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
    A radical re-imagining of the relationship between sound and sense took place in Britain in the decades around 1800. This new approach reconfigured sound as central to understandings of space and temporality, from the diurnal rhythms of everyday life in the modern city to the 'deep time' of the natural world. At the same time, sound emerged as a frequently disruptive phenomenon, a philosophical ... Read more

    $95.19 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to W. H. Auden

    Edited by Stan Smith ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This volume brings together specially commissioned essays by some of the world's leading experts on the life and work of W. H. Auden, one of the major English-speaking poets of the twentieth century. The volume's contributors include a prize-winning poet, Auden's literary executor and editor, and his most recent, widely acclaimed biographer. It offers fresh perspectives on his work from Auden ... Read more

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  • Reading 1759

    Literary Culture in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain and France

    Edited by Shaun Regan ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
    Reading 1759 investigates the literary culture of a remarkable year in British and French history, writing, and ideas. Familiar to many as the British “year of victories” during the Seven Years’ War, 1759 was also an important year in the histories of fiction, philosophy, ethics, and aesthetics. Reading 1759 is the first book to examine together the range of works written and published during this ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

  • English Pastoral Music

    From Arcadia to Utopia, 1900-1955

    by Eric Saylor ...
    Covering works by popular figures like Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gustav Holst as well as less familiar English composers, Eric Saylor's pioneering book examines pastoral music's critical, theoretical, and stylistic foundations alongside its creative manifestations in the contexts of Arcadia, war, landscape, and the Utopian imagination. As Saylor shows, pastoral music adapted and transformed ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Sound Knowledge

    Music and Science in London, 1789-1851

    Edited by Ellen Lockhart, J. Q. Davies ...
    What does it mean to hear scientifically? What does it mean to see musically? This volume uncovers a new side to the long nineteenth century in London, a hidden history in which virtuosic musical entertainment and scientific discovery intersected in remarkable ways.Sound Knowledge examines how scientific truth was accrued by means of visual and aural experience, and, in turn, how musical knowledge ... Read more

    $42.49 USD

  • Music and Irish Identity

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    by Gerry Smyth ...
    Series series Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
    Music and Irish Identity represents the latest stage in a life-long project for Gerry Smyth, focusing here on the ways in which music engages with particular aspects of Irish identity. The nature of popular music and the Irish identity it supposedly articulates have both undergone profound change in recent years: the first as a result of technological and wider industrial changes in the ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • A History of English Autobiography

    Edited by Adam Smyth ...
    A History of English Autobiography explores the genealogy of autobiographical writing in England from the medieval period to the digital era. Beginning with an extensive introduction that charts important theoretical contributions to the field, this History includes wide-ranging essays that illuminate the legacy of English autobiography. Organized thematically, these essays survey the multilayered ... Read more

    $110.69 USD

  • Evolution and Victorian Musical Culture

    by Bennett Zon ...
    This engaging book explores the dynamic relationship between evolutionary science and musical culture in Victorian Britain, drawing upon a wealth of popular scientific and musical literature to contextualize evolutionary theories of the Darwinian and non-Darwinian revolutions. Bennett Zon uses musical culture to question the hegemonic role ascribed to Darwin by later thinkers, and interrogates the ... Read more

    $130.39 USD

  • The Infidel and the Professor

    David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought

    by Dennis C. Rasmussen ...
    The story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships—and how it influenced modern thoughtDavid Hume is widely regarded as the most important philosopher ever to write in English, but during his lifetime he was attacked as “the Great Infidel” for his skeptical religious views and deemed unfit to teach the young. In contrast, Adam Smith was a revered professor of moral philosophy, and is now ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

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  • Music: Ideas in Profile

    by Andrew Gant ...
    Series series Ideas in Profile - small books, big ideas
    Ideas in Profile SeriesIs music a science or an art? It's both, as Andrew Gant reveals in this lively and accessible account of what music is and what it's for. Music has been central to life since the dawn of humankind and is intimately bound up with the origins of language.Andrew Gant introduces us to its long history and its many genres and manifestations. He explains how composers compose, ... Read more

    $10.19 USD