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Music and the Origins of Language
Theories from the French Enlightenment
Av Downing A. Thomas, Jeffrey Kallberg m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
804 kr
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The search for the origins of language was one of the most pressing philosophical issues of the eighteenth century. What has often escaped notice, however, is the fact that music figures prominently in this search. This study analyses instances of thinking or reasoning about music and music theory …
Aesthetics of Opera in the Ancien Régime, 1647-1785
Häftad, 2009
821 kr
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This study recognizes the broad impact of opera in early-modern French culture. Downing A. Thomas considers the use of operatic spectacle and music by Louis XIV as a vehicle for absolutism; the resistance of music to the aesthetic and political agendas of the time; and the long-term development of …
Music and the Origins of Language
Theories from the French Enlightenment
Av Downing A. Thomas, Ruth Solie
Inbunden, 1995
1962 kr
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The search for the origins of language was one of the most pressing philosophical issues of the eighteenth century. What has often escaped notice, however, is the fact that music figures prominently in this search. This study analyses instances of thinking or reasoning about music and music theory …
Aesthetics of Opera in the Ancien Régime, 1647-1785
Inbunden, 2003
1928 kr
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This study recognizes the broad impact of opera in early-modern French culture. Downing A. Thomas considers the use of operatic spectacle and music by Louis XIV as a vehicle for absolutism; the resistance of music to the aesthetic and political agendas of the time; and the long-term development of …
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture
Av Linda Zionkowski, Downing A. Thomas
Inbunden, 2008
615 kr
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The essays in this volume share a common concern with investigating Enlightenment categories of historical understanding and determining how these categories helped shape Enlightenment culture. The contributors address the question of how eighteenth-century writers make sense of the past-how they …
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture
Av Downing A. Thomas, Lisa Forman Cody
Inbunden, 2011
631 kr
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This volume spotlights the visual arts, vision, and blindness during the Enlightenment in France, Britain, and Germany. The essays range from exploring the musical and cultural impact of an eighteenth-century virtuoso violinist to analyzing lotteries as romance in eighteenth-century England. …
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture
Av Linda Zionkowski, Downing A. Thomas
Inbunden, 2009
510 kr
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The interdisciplinary essays in this volume represent innovative scholarship on the Enlightenment in Britain, Europe, and North America. Contributors and contents: Dennis Moore, Colloquy with the Author: Vincent Carretta and Equiano, the African Toni Bowers, Behn's Monmouth: Sedition, Seduction, …
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture
Av Downing A. Thomas, Lisa Forman Cody
Inbunden, 2010
510 kr
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The interdisciplinary essays in this volume represent innovative scholarship on the Enlightenment in Britain, Europe, and North America. Contributors and Contents Richard Barney, The Splenetic Sublime: Anne Finch, Melancholic Physiology, and Post/Modernity Sarah Cohen, Animal Performance in Oudry's …
