Gordon Epperson—THE MUSICAL SYMBOL—An Exploration in Aesthetics (Philosophy) HC

Description: • For your consideration: • A Hardcover Reissue of: • “THE MUSICAL SYMBOL: An Exploration in Aesthetics” (Da Capo Press, 1990) (Hardcover, First Edition Thus) • BY GORDON EPPERSON • “A Study of the Philosophic Theory of Music” • First Published in 1966 • “This work by a concert cellist and professor music is distinctive in setting its goal clearly as a philosophic and theoretic achievement, in keeping its scope consistently restricted to the theory of music, and in it approach—seeking patterns of agreement among otherwise diverse sources. Succeeding, but not following, SUSANNE K. LANGER’s work on symbolic theory of art, EPPERSON refines and extends the thesis that music is a nonverbal symbol.” —ALLAN SHIELDS, THE JOURNAL OF AESTHETIC EDUCATION (1968) • TABLE OF CONTENTS: • PREFACE • INTRODUCTION • CHAPTER ONE: Toward a Philosophy of Music • CHAPTER TWO: Philosophic Musical Thought Through the Eighteenth Century • CHAPTER THREE: SCHOPENHAUER and NIETZSCHE on Music • CHAPTER FOUR: BERGSONIAN Dynamism and Music • CHAPTER FIVE: EDUARD HANSLICK • CHAPTER SIX: EDMUND GURNEY and Ideal Motion • CHAPTER SEVEN: Backgrounds and Foregrounds: Historians, Scientists, Seers • CHAPTER EIGHT: The Symbolist Poets and Their Influence • CHAPTER NINE: Recent Philosophic Theorists • CHAPTER TEN: Twentieth-Century Composers as Spokesmen • CHAPTER ELEVEN: Morphology of the Musical Symbol • AFTERWORD • BIBLIOGRAPHY • INDEX •• For other details, please see below. • TITLE: “THE MUSICAL SYMBOL” SUBTITLE: “An Exploration in Aesthetics” ORIGINAL SUBTITLE: “A Study of the Philosophic Theory of Music” AUTHOR: GORDON EPPERSON NEW PREFACE: GORDON EPPERSON TYPE: HARDCOVER PAGES: 323 PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: Da Capo Press (New York), 1990 FIRST PUBLISHED: 1967 ISBN: 0-306-76291-9 EDITION: First Edition Thus* *RE: On the Copyright Page, this notice: “This Da Capo Press reprint edition of THE MUSICAL SYMBOL is an unabridged republication of the edition published in Ames, Iowa in 1967, here supplemented with author corrections and a new preface.” EDITION NOTE: This copy is NEITHER Ex-Library NOR a Book Club Edition CONDITION of BOARDS (NOT ISSUED WITH DJ): VERY GOOD PLUS. 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