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Music, the arts, and ideasMusic, the arts, and ideas

Music, the arts, and ideas1967

Leonard B. Meyer

About this book

Meyer makes a valuable statement on aesthetics, criteria for assessing great works of music, compositional practices and theories of the present day, and predictions of the future of Western culture. His postlude, written for the book's twenty-fifth anniversary, looks back at his thoughts on the direction of music in 1967.

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First published
1967
OL Work ID
OL3267615W

Subjects

History and criticismMusicPhilosophy and aestheticsMuziekCulturele aspectenCivilization, modern, 20th centuryMusic, history and criticism, 20th centuryMusic, philosophy and aesthetics

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