Music and the Forms of Life

by Lawrence Kramer

Inventors in the age of the Enlightenment created lifelike androids capable of playing music on real instruments. Music and the Forms of Life examines the link between such simulated life and music, which began in the era's scientific literature and extended into a series of famous musical works by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Music invented auditory metaphors for the scientific elements of life (drive, pulse, sensibility, irritability, even...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520389107
• ISBN13: 9780520389106
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"