Sir Roger Scruton is widely seen as one of the greatest conservative thinkers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and a polymath who wrote a wide array of fiction, non-fiction and reviews. He was the author of over fifty books including Understanding Music and The Aesthetics of Music, as well as numerous bestselling books of philosophy, history, fiction and criticism.

Scruton fastidiously argues for tonality and expression as significant components of musical compositions in this enlightening academic work.

• IntroductionPART I: PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS1 When is a Tune?2 Music and Cognitive Science3 Music and the Moral Life4 Music and the Transcendental5 Tonality6 German IdealismPART II: CRITICAL EXPLORATIONS7 Franz Schubert and the Quartettsatz8 Rameua the Musician9 Britten's Dirge10 David Matthews11 Reflections on Deaths in Venice12 Pierre Boulez13 Film Music14 The Assault on Opera15 Nietzsche on Wagner16 The Music of the Future17 The Culture of PopBibliographyAcknowledgementsIndexA Note on the Author

Sir Roger Scruton is widely seen as one of the greatest conservative thinkers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and a polymath who wrote a wide array of fiction, non-fiction and reviews. He was the author of over fifty books including Understanding Music and The Aesthetics of Music, as well as numerous bestselling books of philosophy, history, fiction and criticism.

Scruton fastidiously argues for tonality and expression as significant components of musical compositions in this enlightening academic work.

• IntroductionPART I: PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS1 When is a Tune?2 Music and Cognitive Science3 Music and the Moral Life4 Music and the Transcendental5 Tonality6 German IdealismPART II: CRITICAL EXPLORATIONS7 Franz Schubert and the Quartettsatz8 Rameua the Musician9 Britten's Dirge10 David Matthews11 Reflections on Deaths in Venice12 Pierre Boulez13 Film Music14 The Assault on Opera15 Nietzsche on Wagner16 The Music of the Future17 The Culture of PopBibliographyAcknowledgementsIndexA Note on the Author

Sir Roger Scruton is widely seen as one of the greatest conservative thinkers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and a polymath who wrote a wide array of fiction, non-fiction and reviews. He was the author of over fifty books including Understanding Music and The Aesthetics of Music, as well as numerous bestselling books of philosophy, history, fiction and criticism.

Scruton fastidiously argues for tonality and expression as significant components of musical compositions in this enlightening academic work.

• IntroductionPART I: PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS1 When is a Tune?2 Music and Cognitive Science3 Music and the Moral Life4 Music and the Transcendental5 Tonality6 German IdealismPART II: CRITICAL EXPLORATIONS7 Franz Schubert and the Quartettsatz8 Rameua the Musician9 Britten's Dirge10 David Matthews11 Reflections on Deaths in Venice12 Pierre Boulez13 Film Music14 The Assault on Opera15 Nietzsche on Wagner16 The Music of the Future17 The Culture of PopBibliographyAcknowledgementsIndexA Note on the Author