{"product_id":"music-and-the-idea-of-a-world-9781589881860","title":"Music and the Idea of a World","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"In this deeply felt and well-researched meditation, Kalkavage finds \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ethe special bond that exists between the world and the power of music.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Many people write about the meaning of music, but few can do it as well as Peter Kalkavage does in this marvelous, winsome, and often hauntingly beautiful book. He takes us on a deep dive into the philosophical dimensions of music, through a series of connected essays that demonstrate again and again the ways in which music is intimately connected to the most important questions we wrestle with, about the nature of time, space, and the human condition. It is a book of great learning, but one also brimming over with enthusiasm and love for its subject, a combination that readers will find irresistible.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Dr. Wilfred M. McClay, Professor of History, Hillsdale College\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eMusic and the Idea of a World\u003c\/i\u003e explores\u003cbr\u003ethe bond between music and world by reflecting on great musical compositions\u003cbr\u003eand works by great thinkers from antiquity to the present. World, here, has\u003cbr\u003eseveral meanings. It is the natural world or cosmos, the inner world of feeling\u003cbr\u003eand thought, world history, and the world of tones (the musical universe). The\u003cbr\u003ebook is intended for philosophic-minded readers who are fascinated by music and\u003cbr\u003emusic lovers who enjoy thinking about the philosophic questions that music\u003cbr\u003eraises. The seven-chapter journey begins with a contrast\u003cbr\u003ebetween the cosmologies of Plato and Schopenhauer (followed by a discussion of Palestrina's\u003cbr\u003emusic and the world of the Bible). It then proceeds to chapters on music and nature\u003cbr\u003ein Victor Zuckerkandl's \u003ci\u003eSound and Symbol\u003c\/i\u003e, a love song from Bach's \u003ci\u003eSt.\u003cbr\u003eMatthew Passion\u003c\/i\u003e, a love song from Mozart's \u003ci\u003eMagic Flute\u003c\/i\u003e, Wagner's \u003ci\u003eTristan\u003cbr\u003eand Isolde\u003c\/i\u003e in relation to Schopenhauer's cosmology of the will, twelve-tone\u003cbr\u003emusic as the image of totalitarianism in Thomas Mann's \u003ci\u003eDoctor Faustus\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003cbr\u003eand the world of the inner life in Francis Poulenc's \u003ci\u003eDialogues of the Carmelites.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Kalkavage \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Logic of Desire: An Introduction to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit\u003c\/i\u003e (Paul Dry Books, 2007). He has translated the \u003ci\u003eTimaeus \u003c\/i\u003eand co-translated the \u003ci\u003eSophist, Phaedo, Statesman, Symposium, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Meno\u003c\/i\u003e--all for Hackett Publishing Co. Kalkavage has been teaching at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland for over forty-five years, and for the last thirty years, he has been the director of The St. John's Chorus, which regularly performs sacred music from the Renaissance to the present. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Paul Dry Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50562762146066,"sku":"9781589881860","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_bd280580-3200-4016-84f4-a6fba8bda98a.jpg?v=1731863203","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/music-and-the-idea-of-a-world-9781589881860","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}