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1	Music, the Brain, and Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination more books like this by Robert Jourdain add to wishlist Jourdain examines the effects of music on listeners, and why and how it differs from words. He draws from science, psychology, music theory, and philosophy to present the forces at work when music works its magic. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.98! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Zen Guitar more books like this by Philip Toshio Sudo add to wishlist Offering a contemplative approach to playing the guitar, this book covers all levels of experience from professional musicians and amateur guitar players to uninitiated music lovers. The author offers his own experiences with music to show how to rediscover harmony and become open to Zen awareness. Through 58 lessons which provide a focus and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.38! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Music and the Mind more books like this by Anthony Storr add to wishlist Why does music have such a powerful effect on our minds and bodies? It is the most mysterious and most tangible of all forms of art. Yet, Anthony Storr believes, music today is a deeply significant experience for a greater number of people than ever before. In this book, he explores why this should be so. Drawing on a wide variety of opinions, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.97! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Pleasure of the Text more books like this by Professor Roland Barthes add to wishlist First published in France, as LE PLAISIR DU TEXTE (1973). see all copies from $2.00! new only from $3.95! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness more books like this by Virginia I Postrel add to wishlist A writer on economics for the New York Times takes a look at the insane abundance of choice available to consumerist America and defends it, arguing that the choices made among such multitudes are meaningful ones. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music more books like this by Victor L Wooten add to wishlist From Grammy-winning musical icon and legendary bassist Wooten comes the story of a struggling young musician who wanted music to be his life, and who wanted his life to be great. see all copies from $6.90! new only from $6.90! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Birth of Tragedy and the Case of Wagner more books like this by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche add to wishlist The Birth of Tragedy (1872) was Nietzsche's first book. Its youthful faults were exposed by Nietzsche in the brilliant 'Attempt at a Self-Criticism' which he added to the new edition of 1886.The Case of Wagner (1888) was one of Nietzsche's last books, and his wittiest. In attitude and style it is diametrically opposed to The Birth of Tragedy. Both ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.99! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Critical Theory Since Plato more books like this by Hazard Adams add to wishlist This outstanding anthology traces major critical statements from classic theorists like Plato to the contemporary. This standard historical textbook in the field focuses on important individual thinkers, and not particular schools of thought or isms. Current selections bring the anthology into contemporary times and show students how critical ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $43.95! \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Ideology of the Aesthetic more books like this by Terry Eagleton add to wishlist The Ideology of the Aesthetic presents a history and critique of the concept of the aesthetic throughout modern Western thought. As such, this is a critical survey of modern Western philosophy, focusing in particular on the complex relations between aesthetics, ethics and politics. Eagleton provides a brilliant and challenging introduction to ... see all copies from $23.00! new only from $34.83!
10	Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things more books like this by Professor George Kubler add to wishlist When it was first released in 1962, "The Shape of Time" presented a radically new approach to the study of art history. Drawing upon new insights in fields such as anthropology and linguistics, George Kubler replaced the notion of style as the basis for histories of art with the concept of historical sequence and continuous change across time. ... see all copies from $3.51! new only from $7.50!
11 view cover	Philosophies of Art and Beauty: Selected Readings in Aesthetics from Plato to Heidegger more books like this by Albert Hofstadter (Editor), Richard Kuhns (Editor) add to wishlist Hughes identified it as his mission as a writer "to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America." His poetry was heavily influenced by black oral tradition, jazz, and folklore, and he continually attempted to mirror the black experience, in all its diversity, in his work. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.84! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Aesthetics of Disappearance more books like this by Paul Virilio add to wishlist Virilio himself referred to his 1980 work "The Aesthetics of Disappearance" as a 'juncture' in his thinking, one at which he brought his focus onto the logistics of perception - a logistics he would soon come to refer to as the 'vision machine'. If "Speed and Politics" established Virilio as the inaugural - and still consummate - theorist of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.91! \| SVS
13 view cover	On Beauty and Being Just more books like this by Elaine Scarry add to wishlist Have we become beauty-blind? For two decades or more in the humanities, various political arguments have been put forward against beauty: that it distracts us from more important issues; that it is the handmaiden of privilege; and that it masks political interests. In "On Beauty and Being Just", Elaine Scarry not only defends beauty from the ... see all copies from $5.14! new only from $10.90! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization more books like this by Stuart Isacoff add to wishlist A history of harmony in music, highlighting the invention of the tuning system known as equal temperament--a radical idea in its time--which divides the octave into 12 parts, comprising the notes of the scale. Isacoff considers its enormous impact on the history of music and musical instruments, and also relates it to other developments of the ... see all copies from $3.42! new only from $8.36! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Essays on Music more books like this by Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno, Richard Leppert (Editor) add to wishlist Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969), one of the principal figures associated with the Frankfurt School, wrote extensively on culture, modernity, aesthetics, literature, and - more than any other subject - music. To this day, Adorno remains one of the most influential contributors to the development of qualitative musical sociology which, together with ... see all copies from $32.52! new only from $39.95! \| SVS
16 view cover	How Can We Keep from Singing: Music and the Passionate Life more books like this by Joan Oliver Goldsmith add to wishlist In this quasi-memoir, amateur singer Joan Oliver Goldsmith writes about the pure joy of singing. As she explores her own passionate need to sing, she sheds light on why people in general feel compelled to do it, and reflects on the sources of the pleasure it brings. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.77! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	On the Aesthetic Education of Man in a Series of Letters more books like this by J Friedrich Cshiller, J Friedrich Von Schiller, J Friedrich Schiller add to wishlist Parallel-text edition. Edited and translated by E. M. Wilkinson and L. A. Willoughby. see all copies from $13.43! new only from $41.21! \| SVS
18 view cover	The World Is Sound: NADA Brahma: Music and the Landscape of Consciousness more books like this by Joachim Ernest Berendt add to wishlist One of Europe's foremost jazz producers takes us through a world of musical traditions and explores the effects of sound on consciousness. see all copies from $4.14! new only from $11.51! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Philosophy of Music Education more books like this by Bennett Reimer add to wishlist see all copies from $2.50! new only from $91.34! \| first editions
20 view cover	Emblems of Mind: The Inner Life of Music and Mathematics more books like this by Edward Rothstein add to wishlist From Kepler and the music of the spheres to Einstein and his violin, wherever we turn music and mathematics seem to bear a strong relationship. This book seeks to unravel the mystery at the heart of that relationship. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	The Relevance of the Beautiful and Other Essays more books like this by Hans-Georg Gadamer add to wishlist This volume makes available for the first time in English the most important of Hans-Georg Gadamer's extensive writings on art and literature. The principal text included is 'The Relevance of the Beautiful', Gadamer's most sustained treatment of philosophical aesthetics. The eleven other essays focus particularly on the challenge issued by modern ... see all copies from $12.45! new only from $25.25! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World more books like this by R Murray Schafer add to wishlist Schafer contends that we suffer from an overabundance of acoustic information and explores ways to restore our ability to hear the nuances of sounds around us. This book is a pioneering exploration of our acoustic environment, past and present, and an attempt to imagine what it might become. see all copies from $9.79! new only from $9.79! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	The inner nature of music and the experience of tone more books like this by Rudolf Steiner, Alice Wulsin (Editor), Maria St Goar (Translator) add to wishlist This spiritual scientific study is full of insights into the nature of musical experience, the connection between speech and song, the religious experience of music in ancient times, the cosmic sources of musical inspiration, and the occult experience of major and minor modes. see all copies from $7.35! new only from $16.33! \| SVS
24 view cover	Themes in the Philosophy of Music more books like this by Stephen Davies add to wishlist Representing Stephen Davies's best shorter writings, these essays outline developments within the philosophy of music over the last two decades, and summarize the state of play at the beginning of a new century. Including two new and previously unpublished pieces, they address both perennial questions and contemporary controversies, such as that ... see all copies from $18.50! new only from $40.00! \| SVS
25 view cover	Philosophy of Art: A Contemporary Introduction more books like this by Noel Carroll add to wishlist Philosophy of Art is a textbook for undergraduate students studying philosophical aesthetics. It introduces the techniques of analytic philosophy, as well as key topics such as the representational theory of art, formalism, neo-formalism, aesthetic theories of art, neo-Wittgensteinism, the Institutional Theory of Art and historical approaches to ... see all copies from $29.25! new only from $34.81! \| SVS

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