In 1677 a slim quarto volume was published anonymously as "A Philosophical Essay of Musick". Written by Francis North (1637-85), Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, the essay is in the form of a legal case argued from an hypothesis. Utilizing the pendulum as his hypothesis, North provided a rationale from mechanics for the emerging new musical practice we now call "tonality". He also made auditory resonance the connecting link between acoustical events in the external world and the musical meanings the mind makes on the basis of sensory perception. Thus began the modern philosophy of music that culminated with the work of Hermann von Helmholtz. As a step towards understanding this tradition, Jamie C. Kassler examines the 1677 essay in its historical context. After assessing three 17th-century criticisms of it and outlining how one critic developed some implications in the essay, she summarizes the basic principles that have guided the modern philosophy of music from its beginnings in the 1677 essay. The book includes an annotated edition of the essay as well as the comments of the three critics.
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In common parlance, the term 'philosophy of music' designates aesthetics, a branch of philosophy that emerged in the second half of the eighteenth century and that (depending on one's standpoint) concerns itself with musical beauty, musical taste or musical pleasure. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
kinematic variant, acoustic vibrators, pendular vibrations, overblown tones, flageolet tones, trumpet marine, kinematic optics, emission hypothesis, secondary tones, sounding source, intermediate pulses, coincidence theory, auditory localisation, meantone temperament, succeeding notes, synchronous vibrations, aerial particles, string pendulum, gross air, gross particles, vacuum experiments, sounding body, consonant notes, single tune, perceptual cognition Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Roger North, Francis North, Royal Society, Inner Music, John North, Music Theory, Robert Hooke, Cursory Notes of Musicke, Quantifying Music, Theory of Sounds, Excellent Compendium, North's Essay, Trinity College, The Works, Matthew Hale, Mathematical Principles, Middle Temple, Peter Millard, The Theory of Beats, Lord North, Philosophical Essay of Musick, Alexander Ellis, Gentle Flame, Isaac Barrow, Musick Scripts New!
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In common parlance, the term 'philosophy of music' designates aesthetics, a branch of philosophy that emerged in the second half of the eighteenth century and that (depending on one's standpoint) concerns itself with musical beauty, musical taste or musical pleasure. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
kinematic variant, acoustic vibrators, pendular vibrations, overblown tones, flageolet tones, trumpet marine, kinematic optics, emission hypothesis, secondary tones, sounding source, intermediate pulses, coincidence theory, auditory localisation, meantone temperament, succeeding notes, synchronous vibrations, aerial particles, string pendulum, gross air, gross particles, vacuum experiments, sounding body, consonant notes, single tune, perceptual cognition Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Roger North, Francis North, Royal Society, Inner Music, John North, Music Theory, Robert Hooke, Cursory Notes of Musicke, Quantifying Music, Theory of Sounds, Excellent Compendium, North's Essay, Trinity College, The Works, Matthew Hale, Mathematical Principles, Middle Temple, Peter Millard, The Theory of Beats, Lord North, Philosophical Essay of Musick, Alexander Ellis, Gentle Flame, Isaac Barrow, Musick Scripts New!
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- Inner Music: Hobbes, Hooke and North on Internal Character by Jamie Croy Kassler on 26 pages
- On the Sensations of Tone (Dover Books on Music) by Hermann Helmholtz on 23 pages
- Quantifying Music: The Science of Music at the First Stage of Scientific Revolution 1580-1650 (The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science) by H.F. Cohen on 12 pages
- Aubrey's Brief Lives (Nonpareil Books, No 77) by John Aubrey on 7 pages
- Treatise on Light by Christiaan Huygens on 6 pages
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