Musical Concerns: Essays in Philosophy of MusicThis volume presents a new collection of essays, all of them dealing with music, by Jerrold Levinson, one of the most prominent philosophers of art today. It follows in the line of Levinson's earlier collections, Music, Art, and Metaphysics (1990), The Pleasures of Aesthetics (1996), and Contemplating Art (2006), and is representative of the most stimulating work being done under the rubric of analytic aesthetics. The essays, which are wide-ranging, should appeal to aestheticians, philosophers, musicologists, music theorists, music critics and music lovers of all kinds. Three of the twelve essays comprising the volume have not previously been published, and in somewhat of a departure for Levinson, four of the essays focus on music in the jazz tradition. |
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The standard object of the activity of composing music, naturally enough, is to
end up with a musical composition. Or more simply, a piece of music. But what is
a piece of music? It is preeminently a whole, a microcosm, a little world, complete
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The standard object of the activity of composing music, naturally enough, is to
end up with a musical composition. Or more simply, a piece of music. But what is
a piece of music? It is preeminently a whole, a microcosm, a little world, complete
...
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The unity and completeness of a piece of music, especially a classical
composition of the eighteenth or nineteenth century, is manifestly a prime object
of aesthetic delight; think of Bach's Sixth “Brandenburg” Concerto, Mozart's G
minor String ...
The unity and completeness of a piece of music, especially a classical
composition of the eighteenth or nineteenth century, is manifestly a prime object
of aesthetic delight; think of Bach's Sixth “Brandenburg” Concerto, Mozart's G
minor String ...
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Contents
The Aesthetic Appreciation of Music | |
Concatenationism Architectonicism and the Appreciation of Music | |
Indication Abstraction and Individuation | |
Musical Beauty | |
Values of Music | |
Shame in General and Shame in Music | |
Jazz Vocal Interpretation | |
Popular Song as Moral Microcosm | |
The Expressive Specificity of Jazz | |
Instrumentation and Improvisation | |
What Is a Temporal Art? | |
Index | |
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| Title | Musical Concerns: Essays in Philosophy of Music |
| Author | Jerrold Levinson |
| Publisher | OUP Oxford, 2015 |
| ISBN | 0191648426, 9780191648427 |
| Length | 176 pages |
| Subjects | › › Music / Instruction & Study / Theory Philosophy / Aesthetics Philosophy / General |
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