A question of balance : Charles Seeger's philosophy of music
"For more than half a century Charles Louis Seeger (1886-1979) led a distinguished career in American music as composer, teacher, author, administrator, and humanist. Seeger's musical life was as eclectic as it was abundant: he not only championed traditions outside the mainstream, including folk and popular music, but also drew on fields outside of music, such as anthropology, linguistics, philosophy, and folklore. In A Question of Balance, Taylor Greer argues that Seeger's central contribution to the field of music was his aesthetic philosophy, which can be described as a marriage of conflicting temperaments: an artistic instinct mediated by a rational intellect."--Jacket
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (xv, 273 pages) : illustrations, music
9780520920132, 9780585371559, 0520920139, 0585371555
48139612
pt. 1. Philosophical theory. Bergson's intuition and Seeger's predicament
Russell's synthesis of mysticism and logic
Perry's philosophy of value
Seeger's theory of music criticism
pt. 2. Musical applications. A philosophy in practice: music criticism
A philosophy in practice: compositional theory
Seeger's vision of musicology
Epilogue: neume, new music, new musicology
English