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A history of emotion in Western music : a thousand years from chant to pop
- Title
- A history of emotion in Western music : a thousand years from chant to pop / Michael Spitzer.
- Author
- Spitzer, Michael
- Publication
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]
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Details
- Description
- xii, 437 pages : illustrations, music; 27 cm
- Summary
- "This book is the first history of musical emotion in any language. Combining intellectual history, music studies, philosophy and cognitive psychology, it unfolds a history of musical emotion across a thousand years of Western art music, from chant to pop. It affords a new way of analysing music, revealing the relationship between emotion and musical structure. The book also provides an introduction to the latest approaches to emotion research, as well as an original theory of how musical emotion works. The book is disposed in two parts. Part 1 (chapters 1-4) comprises the theoretical foundation of the book. Part 2 (chapters 5-9) provides an historical narrative from medieval to contemporary music. Chapter 1 summarizes contemporary theories of emotion in general, and of musical emotion in particular, bringing together seminal philosophers and psychologists. Chapter 2 contains the core of the book's original thesis: that five basic emotions (happiness, sadness, anger, tenderness, and fear) constitute five categories of musical emotion throughout the common-practice period. Chapter 3 outlines a variety of complex musical emotions, such as wonder, nostalgia, envy, and disgust. Chapter 4 explores the historiography of emotion, including the seminal writings of Elias, Rosenwein, and Reddy. Part 2 of the book (chapters 5-9) explores a millennium of Western music in terms of shifting categories of emotion: from affections and passions through sentiments, emotions proper, to modern affect"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [393]-415) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: "why not?" -- I. The theory. Concepts -- Categories -- Compounds -- Histories -- II. Narratives. Before emotion ; The Augustinian ascent -- The age of affective realism ; Passions ; Sentiments ; Emotions ; Affects.
- Call Number
- JMF 21-88
- ISBN
- 9780190061753
- 0190061758
- 9780190061777 (canceled/invalid)
- 9780190061784 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2020015571
- OCLC
- 1151519359
- Author
- Spitzer, Michael, author.
- Title
- A history of emotion in Western music : a thousand years from chant to pop / Michael Spitzer.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [393]-415) and index.
- Local Note
- AUTH: UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Spitzer, Michael, A history of emotion in western music New York : Oxford University Press, 2020. 9780190061777 (DLC) 2020015572
- Research Call Number
- JMF 21-88