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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... to instrumental classical music, are then illustrated by a look in some detail at the first movement of Gabriel Fauré's Piano Quartet in C minor, Op. 15. The second, somewhat barbarously titled, essay is a rejoinder to Introduction.
... to instrumental classical music, are then illustrated by a look in some detail at the first movement of Gabriel Fauré's Piano Quartet in C minor, Op. 15. The second, somewhat barbarously titled, essay is a rejoinder to Introduction.
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... movement acquired the nickname of “The Philosopher.” Though not really a case of philosophy influencing music, since that nickname was a late accretion and not a part of Haydn's conception of the music in question, it can still give ...
... movement acquired the nickname of “The Philosopher.” Though not really a case of philosophy influencing music, since that nickname was a late accretion and not a part of Haydn's conception of the music in question, it can still give ...
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... movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, the first movements of Mahler's Sixth Symphony or Bruckner's Eighth Symphony, of Vaughan Williams's. 5 According to Luc Ferry's reading of Nietzsche (see his Qu'est-ce qu'une vie reussie?, Paris ...
... movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, the first movements of Mahler's Sixth Symphony or Bruckner's Eighth Symphony, of Vaughan Williams's. 5 According to Luc Ferry's reading of Nietzsche (see his Qu'est-ce qu'une vie reussie?, Paris ...
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... movements of Beethoven's late piano sonatas—those from Op. 90 onwards—which variously illustrate in sound states of profound resignation, otherworldly bliss, and “the peace that passeth understanding,” and which arguably allow receptive ...
... movements of Beethoven's late piano sonatas—those from Op. 90 onwards—which variously illustrate in sound states of profound resignation, otherworldly bliss, and “the peace that passeth understanding,” and which arguably allow receptive ...
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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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