Music and the Origins of Language
Downing A. Thomas
Broschiertes Buch

Music and the Origins of Language

Theories from the French Enlightenment

Herausgeber: Kallberg, Jeffrey; Newcomb, Anthony
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This study analyses reflections on music and considers ways in which it facilitates links between language and meaning.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 as they appear within the logical and narrative structure of contemporary texts, including writings by Rousseau, Diderot, Rameau and Condillac. These can only be properly understood ...