The Fine Art of Repetition: Essays in the Philosophy of Music

Contents

• Preface
• Introduction
• PART I: I. Mattheson as philosopher of art
• II. Mainwaring's Handel: its relation to English aesthetics
• III. Charles Burney, music critic
• IV. Kant and the Affektenlehre: what he said, and what I wish he had said
• V. Mozart and monotheism: an essay in spurious aesthetics
• VI. Child Mozart as an aesthetic symbol
• VII. Something I've always wanted to know about Hanslick
• VIII. What was Hanslick denying?
• IX. Charles Darwin on music
• X. Herbert Spencer and a musical dispute
• PART II: XI. The fine art of repetition
• XII. Platonism in music: a kind of defense
• XIII. Platonism in music: another kind of defense
• XIV. Orchestrating platonism
• XV. Opera talk: a philosophical 'phantasie'
• XVI. How did Mozart do it?: living conditions in the world of opera
• XVII. How did Mozart do it?: Replies to my critics
• XVIII. Live performances and dead composers: on the ethics of musical interpretation
• XIX. On the concept of the 'historically authentic' performance
• XX. Paul Robinson's Opera and Ideas
• XXI. From ideology to music: Leonard Meyer's theory of style change
• XXII. Music and liberal education
• XXIII. A new music criticism?
• XXIV. Is music an art?