Speaking of Music
Addressing the Sonorous
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“A rare, useful, and rich book, destined to attract musicologists, philosophers, theorists of all sorts, and philosophers of language.”——Pierre Saint-Amand, Brown University
“Throughout the book there are imaginative insights and unique perspectives that challenge preconceptions and give new directions for further investigation.”——Kenneth Gloag, Cardiff University
Keith Chapin is Lecturer in Music at Cardiff University. He has taught at Fordham University (New York) and at the New Zealand School of Music (Wellington). He specializes in issues of critical theory, music aesthetics, and music theory in the seventeenth through twentieth centuries and in particular on issues of counterpoint. He has been Coeditor of Eighteenth- Century Music and Associate Editor of 19th-Century Music and sits on the editorial boards of these journals. He was coeditor (with Lawrence Kramer) of Musical Meaning and Human Values (2009). Recent articles have appeared in Music & Letters, 19th-Century Music, and the International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music.
Andrew H. Clark is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Fordham University. He is the author of Diderot’s Part (2008). He works and writes on literature, aesthetics, and science in the early modern period.