A Language of Its Own: Sense and Meaning in the Making of Western Art Music

by Ruth Katz

Book Overview

The Western musical tradition has produced not only music, but also countless writings about music that remain in continuous--and enormously influential--dialogue with their subject. With sweeping scope and philosophical depth, A Language of Its Own traces the past millennium of this ongoing exchange.

Ruth Katz argues that the indispensible relationship between intellectual production and musical creation gave rise to the Western conception...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226425975
• ISBN13: 9780226425979
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.1"