Thinking About Music : An Introduction to the Philosophy of Music

Examines the nature of music and traces the history of music philosophy from ancient Greece to the twentieth century. Lewis Rowell's Thinking About Music is more than an introduction to the connections between music and other arts, and the philosophical underpinnings of aesthetics. "This book is for readers who are insatiably curious about music -- "students of music" in the broadest sense of the word. In this category I include those whose musical concerns are more humanistic than technical, as well as those preparing for careers in music ... In a library system of classification, Thinking About Music is apt to be filed under the heading "Music -- Aesthetics, history and problems of," and that is a fair description."--Preface