Music and The Origins Of Language : Theories From The French Enlightenment.

"...It is well known that eighteenth-century philosophers studied the origins of language as a way of pinpointing the origin of semiosis, of meaning in gene ral. What has often escaped notice...is the fact that music figures prominentl in this search for origins." - author's introduction. Bibliography, index.

xi, 195 p.; 24 cm.
Cloth
ISBN: 0521473071
ISBN13: 9780521473071