Music and the Idea of a World

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Music and the Idea of a World exploresthe bond between music and world by reflecting on great musical compositionsand works by great thinkers from antiquity to the present. World, here, hasseveral meanings. It is the natural world or cosmos, the inner world of feelingand thought, world history, and the world of tones (the musical universe). Thebook is intended for philosophic-minded readers who are fascinated by music andmusic lovers who enjoy thinking about the philosophic questions that musicraises. The seven-chapter journey begins with a contrastbetween the cosmologies of Plato and Schopenhauer (followed by a discussion of Palestrina'smusic and the world of the Bible). It then proceeds to chapters on music and naturein Victor Zuckerkandl's Sound and Symbol, a love song from Bach's St.Matthew Passion, a love song from Mozart's Magic Flute, Wagner's Tristanand Isolde in relation to Schopenhauer's cosmology of the will, twelve-tonemusic as the image of totalitarianism in Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus, and the world of the inner life in Francis Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites.