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Theorizing Music Evolution

Theorizing Music Evolution

Darwin, Spencer, and the Limits of the Human

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Theorizing Music Evolution is a critical examination of ideas about musical origins, with emphasis on nineteenth-century music-evolutionary texts by Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer. In a ground-breaking contribution to music theory and histories of science, author Miriam Piilonen argues for the significance of this Victorian music-evolutionism in lights of its ties to a recently revitalized subfield of evolutionary musicology.

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mars 2024, Oxford Studies in Music Theory, Anglais
Oxford Academic
978-0-19-769528-9

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