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Nine Basic Arts (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Paul Weiss

 
9780331338928: Nine Basic Arts (Classic Reprint)

Synopsis

Explore how time itself is shaped by art, and how musicry can create a single, meaningful time from many different rhythms.

Based on a philosophical approach to daily time, this work explains how public clocks, private rhythms, emotional unions, and grand plans blend into our everyday experience. It argues that to grasp existential time, we turn to the temporal arts, especially musical composition, which creates a time that reflects both inner feeling and outer reality.

  • Understand the four kinds of time—perceptual, scientific, eventful, and valuational—and how they relate to daily life.
  • Learn how musicry uses melody, rhythm, and harmony to reveal the texture of time itself.
  • See how a musical composition differs from a performance and why both are essential arts.
  • Discover how art can help you sense time as a living, integral part of existence.

Ideal for readers interested in philosophy of time, aesthetics, and how art shapes our experience of daily life.

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