Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Music and language
- 2 Origins
- 3 Music theory and the genealogy of knowledge in Condillac's Essai sur l'origine des connaissances humaines
- 4 Music and original loss in Rousseau's Essai sur l'origine des langues
- 5 Sensible sounds: music and theories of the passions
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Music and language
- 2 Origins
- 3 Music theory and the genealogy of knowledge in Condillac's Essai sur l'origine des connaissances humaines
- 4 Music and original loss in Rousseau's Essai sur l'origine des langues
- 5 Sensible sounds: music and theories of the passions
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Music and the Origins of LanguageTheories from the French Enlightenment, pp. 186 - 195Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995