Sound and Symbol, Volume 1 by Victor Zuckerkandl

Sound and Symbol, Volume 1 by Victor Zuckerkandl

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Offers an approach to music as an instrument of philosophical inquiry, seeking not so much a philosophy of music as a philosophy through music.

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Sound and Symbol, Volume 1 by Victor Zuckerkandl

An approach to music as an instrument of philosophical inquiry, seeking not so much a philosophy of music as a philosophy through music.
Victor Zuckerkandl (1896-1965), born in Vienna, came to the United States in 1940 and taught at Wellesley College, The New School, and St. John's College in Annapolis, where he developed the new approach to music presented in this book. His publications include Sound and Symbol: Music and the External World Princeton/Bollingen, 1969). A continuation of Sound and Symbol was completed before his death. It has been translated by Norbert Guterman and published as Man the Musician (Bollingen XLIV:2).
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ISBN 13 9780691017594
ISBN 10 069101759X
Title Sound and Symbol, Volume 1
Author Victor Zuckerkandl
Series Bollingen Series
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Princeton University Press
Year published 1969-10-21
Number of pages 407
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