This is the first study to recognize the wider picture of opera within early-modern French culture. Downing Thomas considers the place of music within a cultural environment--the employment of music ...

Aesthetics are at the foreground, and it’s a sort-of manifesto against the instrumentalization of music. TORONYI-LALIC ... a privately funded British opera festival that receives little state ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (MPIEA) in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, have investigated how the combination of music and images influences the aesthetic ...