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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... emotions and underlining its positive and negative 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 ...
... emotions and underlining its positive and negative 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 ...
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... emotion in music, notably “Music and Negative Emotion,” “Hope in 'The Hebri“Musical Expressiveness as Hearabilitydes',” “Musical Expressiveness,” as-Expression,” and “Emotion in Response to Art.”3 “Jazz Vocal Interpretation: A ...
... emotion in music, notably “Music and Negative Emotion,” “Hope in 'The Hebri“Musical Expressiveness as Hearabilitydes',” “Musical Expressiveness,” as-Expression,” and “Emotion in Response to Art.”3 “Jazz Vocal Interpretation: A ...
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... emotional expressiveness, the second on its distinctive processes of production. “The Expressive Specificity of Jazz ... emotions but comports ill with the expression of other emotions, rendering their expression in jazz virtually ...
... emotional expressiveness, the second on its distinctive processes of production. “The Expressive Specificity of Jazz ... emotions but comports ill with the expression of other emotions, rendering their expression in jazz virtually ...
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... emotional. Nor does it hold, I would wager, for most non-Western musics, whether of Asia, Africa, or Latin America. 3. Let us then leave behind the venerable but ultimately unfruitful attempt to link music and philosophy through ...
... emotional. Nor does it hold, I would wager, for most non-Western musics, whether of Asia, Africa, or Latin America. 3. Let us then leave behind the venerable but ultimately unfruitful attempt to link music and philosophy through ...
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... emotionally, and is judged successful mainly to the degree that it achieves that rather different goal. Now it is true that in both musical and philosophical thought the objective is to achieve, at each step, what one may call ...
... emotionally, and is judged successful mainly to the degree that it achieves that rather different goal. Now it is true that in both musical and philosophical thought the objective is to achieve, at each step, what one may call ...
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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