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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It includes, with one exception, essays composed between 2006 and 2014.
Unlike its three predecessors, Musical Concerns is devoted exclusively to
philosophical issues concerning music, as its title rather plainly suggests. But that
is not to ...
It includes, with one exception, essays composed between 2006 and 2014.
Unlike its three predecessors, Musical Concerns is devoted exclusively to
philosophical issues concerning music, as its title rather plainly suggests. But that
is not to ...
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One might as well ask, it would seem, about the relation between philosophy and
magic, or the relation between music and pottery. Is there thus something about
music and philosophy, two ostensibly quite different realms, that demands, or at ...
One might as well ask, it would seem, about the relation between philosophy and
magic, or the relation between music and pottery. Is there thus something about
music and philosophy, two ostensibly quite different realms, that demands, or at ...
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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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Bibliographic information
| 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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