Philosophy of Music: A History

includes index and biblioraphy

1. The Art of the Muses ........5 Pythagoras`s Hammers .......5 Plato and Supreme music ......10 The voice of Aristotle .........15 Aristoxenus: The Harmonic Science .......20 The end of the Ancient world Augustine .............24 The middle ages ............33 2. Harmony and Disenchantment ...............40 Humanists and scientists .........40 From Descartes to leibniz.........50 Sounds and the light of Reason.........56 Music and play in Kant ............63 3. The Century of Music .........71 Romantic acoustics ..........71 From the romantics to schopenhauer...........79 Hegel and Trembling .........87 Musical Science and Aesthetics .............92 The case of Nietzsche .......99 4. Dissonances ........106 Bloch and the art of Utopia .......106 Adorno: Philosophy of Music ............110 Phenomenologies of Listening ............118 Logic and the Symbol : Wittgenstein and susanne langer .........125 Music and analytic philosophy ...........131