'Like Hanslick, Professor Payzant is both musician and philosopher; and he has brought the knowledge and insights of both disciplines to this large undertaking' - Gordon Epperson, "Journal of Aesthetics & Art Criticism".[...]
Eduard Hanslick's On the Musically Beautiful (Vom Musikalisch-SchAnen, 1854), written and published before the author turned 30, is a watershed document in the history of aesthetics, and of thought about music generally. The notion of "absolute music," which lies at the heart of the treatise, is now[...]
'Like Hanslick, Professor Payzant is both musician and philosopher; and he has brought the knowledge and insights of both disciplines to this large undertaking' - Gordon Epperson, "Journal of Aesthetics & Art Criticism".[...]