Musicologia

This is the first study of its kind to address the presence of musical and acoustical metaphor in western science and philosophy from the time of the ancient Greeks to the present. The most difficult and controversial ideas of 20th century music are shown to connect with fundamental precepts of science and philosophy: existence, continuity, number, space, time, identity, and communication.

Robin Maconie is a New Zealand composer and musicologist. He is the author of Other Planets: The Music of Karlheinz Stockhausen (2005), The Way of Music: Aural Training for the Internet Generation (2006), and Musicologia: Musical Knowledge from Plato to John Cage (2010), all published by Scarecrow Press.