The Origins of Music Theory in the Age of Plato

by Sean Alexander Gurd

Book Overview

Listening is a social process. Even apparently trivial acts of listening are expert performances of acquired cognitive and bodily habits. Contemporary scholars acknowledge this fact with the notion that there are "auditory cultures." In the fourth century BCE, Greek philosophers recognized a similar phenomenon in music, which they treated as a privileged site for the cultural manufacture of sensory capabilities, and proof that in a traditional...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350194441
• ISBN13: 9781350194441
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"