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Essay on the Origin of Languages and Writings Related to Music
Language: en
Pages: 658
Authors: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-07-01 - Publisher: UPNE

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"J.J. was born for music," Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote of himself, "not to be consumed in its execution, but to speed its progress and make discoveries about it
Essay on the Origin of Languages and Writings Related to Music
Language: en
Pages: 658
Authors: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-07-01 - Publisher: UPNE

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau the writer-philosopher was a practicing musician and theorist for years before publication of his first Discourse, but scholars have negle
On the Origin of Language
Language: en
Pages: 187
Authors: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-04-26 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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This volume combines Rousseau's essay on the origin of diverse languages with Herder's essay on the genesis of the faculty of speech. Rousseau's essay is import
Unfinished Music
Language: en
Pages: 422
Authors: Richard Kramer
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-07-12 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Unfinished Music explores with subtle insight the uneasy relationship between the finished work and the elusive, provocative traces of the profound labors burie
Music, Modernity, and God
Language: en
Pages: 270
Authors: Jeremy Begbie
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-11-22 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

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When the story of modernity is told from a theological perspective, music is routinely ignored—despite its pervasiveness in modern culture and the manifold wa