{"product_id":"9781936512379","title":"Aesthetics of Music in the Early Renaissance","description":"For the first time, Dr. David Whitwell presents a thor­ough study of the per­for­mance of music in soci­ety together with the philo­soph­i­cal views on art ver­sus enter­tain­ment, the role of per­for­mance in edu­ca­tion and char­ac­ter for­ma­tion and how ear­lier philoso­phers viewed the inter­play among Rea­son, Emo­tions, expe­ri­ence and the senses. The present vol­ume stud­ies these ques­tions and more dur­ing the first two cen­turies of the Renais­sance. While the Church con­tin­ued to spon­sor impor­tant music, the spot­light had clearly turned to the grow­ing cul­ti­va­tion of the arts in the indi­vid­ual courts and the pub­lic at large, as is doc­u­mented by a num­ber of great writ­ers, among them Petrarch, Boc­cac­cio and Chaucer. It should be no sur­prise that some friends of Leonardo da Vinci con­sid­ered him the great­est musi­cian known to them, a fact almost entirely for­got­ten today. This wide inter­est in the per­for­mance of music caused the music the­o­rists to begin to aban­don the old Church dogma about music being a branch of math­e­mat­ics and to recon­sider music as an expres­sion of man.","brand":"Whitwell Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47056484434160,"sku":"9781936512379","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781936512379_p0.jpg?v=1763659527","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781936512379","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}