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Music, History, and Ideas

出版	1938-04-08
主題	Fiction / Performing Arts / MusicMusic / GeneralMusic / Reference
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=mnFVEQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋THE study of music is generally pursued from one particular point of view: a certain instrument is learned, or the art of singing is cultivated; the technique of composition is studied, or the history of music is surveyed more or less carefully. In the course of a general musical education one may even combine the study of several of the topics just mentioned. Yet specialized studies of this type cut music off from its natural connection with the spiritual and material world, and leave out of consideration the fact that it is only one part of general culture. The state of general culture in a particular epoch is, in turn, dependent on the state of social life, on the political history, the geographic conditions, and the language of a country. Music consequently has an essential relationship to all these subjects. Furthermore, it rests on an underlying scientific basis that involves physics and mathematics, and it has ties, more or less close, with literature and the other arts. Poetry, architecture, sculpture, painting, dancing, acting, and the industrial arts have affected music and have in their turn been affected by it. Philosophy, aesthetics, and meditation on the inner meaning of human life and art also draw music into their compass. But as it is generally studied nowadays music has too much the status of an anatomical preparation. We look at it very minutely — microscopically, in fact; we dissect it and analyze its appearance, but the true object of our study forever escapes us. (From "Introduction")