As a composer his works fall generally into three categories:microtonal works in just intonation, involving electronics;rhythmically complex works for Disklavier (computer-driven acoustic piano); andp ...
Music history or historical musicology studies the composition, performance, reception, and criticism of music over time. Historical studies of music are for example concerned with a composer's life a ...
Partch was born on June 24, 1901, in Oakland, California. His parents were Virgil Franklin Partch (1860–1919) and Jennie (née Childers, 1863–1920). The Presbyterian couple were missionaries, and se ...
Not all reaction to Wagner was positive. For a time, German musical life divided into two factions, supporters of Wagner and supporters of Johannes Brahms; the latter, with the support of the powerful ...
In 1871, Wagner decided to move to Bayreuth, which was to be the location of his new opera house. The town council donated a large plot of land—the "Green Hill"—as a site for the theatre. The Wagner ...
Richard Wagner was born in Leipzig, at No. 3, the Brühl (The House of the Red and White Lions), in the Jewish quarter, the ninth child of Carl Friedrich Wagner, who was a clerk in the Leipzig police ...
Hanslick was born in Prague (then in the Austrian Empire), the son of Joseph Adolph Hanslik, a bibliographer and music teacher from a German-speaking family, and one of his piano pupils, the daughter ...
The musicologist Winton Dean has suggested that "music is probably the most difficult of the arts to criticize." Unlike the plastic or literary arts, the 'language' of music does not specifically rela ...
Stephen Davies is a Distinguished Professor of philosophy at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He mainly writes on aesthetics, particularly the philosophy of music but also works on political p ...
Scruton first embraced conservatism during the student protests of May 1968 in France. Nicholas Wroe wrote in The Guardian that Scruton was in the Latin Quarter in Paris at the time, watching students ...
Speaking of Art (1973).Francis Hutcheson's Inquiry Concerning Beauty, Order, Harmony, Design (ed., 1973).Thomas Reid's Lectures on the Fine Arts (ed., 1973).The Seventh Sense: A Study of Francis Hutch ...
Baumgarten was born in Berlin as the fifth of seven sons of the pietist pastor of the garrison, Jacob Baumgarten, and of his wife Rosina Elisabeth. Both his parents died early, and he was taught by Ma ...
With his Perpetual Peace, Kant is considered to have foreshadowed many of the ideas that have come to form the democratic peace theory, one of the main controversies in political science.Prominent rec ...
Immanuel Kant was born in 1724 in K?nigsberg, Prussia (since 1946 the city of Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia), as the fourth of nine children (four of them reached adulthood). Baptized 'Eman ...
English editions of the works of Jacques Lacan have generally left jouissance untranslated, to help convey its specialised usage. Lacan first developed his concept of an opposition between jouissance ...
