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Music and the origins of language: theories from the French Enlightenment

Downing A Thomas c1995 © Cambridge University Press
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Series
  • New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism
ISBN(s)
  • 9780521028622 (paper)
  • 9780521473071 (hardcover)
  • 9780511092602 (ebook)
Subject
  • Music & Musicology
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements (page xi)
  • Introduction (page 1)
  • 1 Music and language (page 12)
  • 2 Origins (page 34)
  • 3 Music theory and the genealogy of knowledge in Condillac's Essai sur l'origine des connaissances humaines (page 57)
  • 4 Music and original loss in Rousseau's Essai sur l'origine des langues (page 82)
  • 5 Sensible sounds: music and theories of the passions (page 143)
  • Conclusion (page 173)
  • Bibliography (page 177)
  • Index (page 186)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
MAL 77.2 (May 1996): 277-278 http://www.jstor.org/stable/737207
NOT 53.2 (Dec. 1996): 486-488 http://www.jstor.org/stable/900146
MT 136.1831 (Sep. 1995): 489 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1003731
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