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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... aspects, and illustrating my observations with some examples, including one from William Styron's novel Sophie's Choice. In the second part of the essay I turn to the somewhat odd question of whether there are varieties of shame ...
... aspects, and illustrating my observations with some examples, including one from William Styron's novel Sophie's Choice. In the second part of the essay I turn to the somewhat odd question of whether there are varieties of shame ...
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... aspect or dimension of the extramusical world. Difficult, to be sure, but not a suggestion to be dismissed out of hand. For surely some music offers a vision—in sound, of course, but nevertheless a vision—of aspects of human reality ...
... aspect or dimension of the extramusical world. Difficult, to be sure, but not a suggestion to be dismissed out of hand. For surely some music offers a vision—in sound, of course, but nevertheless a vision—of aspects of human reality ...
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... aspect of human reality, for example religion, morality, science, language, consciousness, and so on, calls out for philosophy, that is to say, conceptual, normative, and speculative examination of the phenomenon involved. But there is ...
... aspect of human reality, for example religion, morality, science, language, consciousness, and so on, calls out for philosophy, that is to say, conceptual, normative, and speculative examination of the phenomenon involved. But there is ...
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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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