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Music as an Art

By: Roger Scruton
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Roger Scruton is a polymath. He has written authoritatively on a huge range of subjects from the environment to wine, from cosmology to the Middle East. He is also an accomplished musician (organ and piano) and a composer of works including an opera and a song cycle. This is Scruton’s second major work on music for Bloomsbury - the first being Understanding Music (Continuum, 2009).

In this new book he turns again to the meaning of tonality and sound. His abstract, somewhat mystical argument on these topics includes slashing attacks on Marxist reductionism, on the authenticity of Early Music, on rival aestheticians such as Adorno and on sentimentality and cliché in any form. As with Understanding Music, he also expounds his views on pop music in a most satisfying and provocative new work.

Cover copyright: © Succession Picasso/DACS, London 2018

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I’d never heard half of the pieces Scruton analysed in his book, Music as an Art, but thankfully it has exposed me to new pieces and made me reconsider music as a whole. Much went over my head, but I managed a few crumbs here and there.

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