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Music in the Moment

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Cornell University Press, 1997 - Music - 184 pages
"Jerrold Levinson's new book, Music in the Moment, makes a major contribution to the now flourishing field of philosophy of music. He has a daring thesis about music listening that is going to shake up the experts, and pose for them, and for us all, some very hard questions. To reuse, yet again, the old cliché, no one interested in the field, can afford not to read Levinson's book."—Peter Kivy, author of Authenticities"Jerrold Levinson is one of the world's outstanding philosophers of music. His new book, Music in the Moment, is bold, meticulous, cogent and immensely illuminating of the experience of listening to music."—Malcolm Budd, University of LondonWhat is required for a listener to understand a piece of music? Does aural understanding depend upon reflective awareness of musical architecture or large-scale musical structure? Jerrold Levinson thinks not. In contrast to what is commonly assumed, Levinson argues that basic understanding of music only requires properly grounded, present-focused attention, and that virtually everything in the comprehension of extended pieces of music that suggests explicit architectonic awareness can be explained without positing a conscious grasp of relationships across broad spans.
  

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Levinson attempts the daunting task of arguing one of the basic assumptions of the academic music theory community, that consciously grasping the large-scale structure of a piece of music is necessary ... Read full review

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This fellow isn't going to make friends amongst music theorists or, for that matter, with aesthetic philosophers, but his ideas are fascinating. The notion that one needn't maintain concious awareness ... Read full review

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Edmund Gurney and the Experience of Music
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Statement and Elaboration of Concatenationism
13
Initial Defense of Concatenationism
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Concatenationism and Causality
43
LargeScale Relationships in Music
53
Sonata and Other Forms
71
Further Challenges I
110
Further Challenges II
132
Concatenationism Musical Value and Musical Form
159
Works Cited
176
Index
181
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Music in the Moment. BY JERROLD LEVINSON. (Cornell UP, 1997. Pp. xii + I84. Price not given.) Composers concern themselves with technicalities that are not ...
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Blackwell Synergy - Music Analysis, Vol 19, Issue 1: Table of Contents
Jerrold Levinson, Music in the Moment. Paul von Hippel. pages 134–141. Summary; | Full Text PDF (86 KB); | Rights and Permissions ...
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Concatenationism « The truth makes me fret.
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Music Through a Narrow Aperture: a Qualified Defense of ...
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About the author (1997)

Jerrold Levinson is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park. His publications include Music, Art, and Metaphysics (1990), The Pleasures of Aesthetics (1998), and Music in the Moment (1998). He is the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics (2003) and
co-editor of Aesthetic Concepts (2001). He is Past President of the American Society for Aesthetics and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Aesthetics. His work is widely anthologized and translated into various languages.

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